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All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#everywhere #get #got #guy #guys

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. ↗

— Naomi Weisstein

#certainty #describing #found #infallibility #nature

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#adult #good #healthy #medicine #more

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. ↗

— Alex Winter

#cinema #classical #dialogue #i #interesting

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything. ↗

— Edward Witten

#bend #break #change #einstein #general

Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think. ↗

— Libba Bray

#sorry #beauty

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. ↗

— James Wolcott

#believe #best #bring #collections #enjoy