#topped

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#classed #fails #failure #finish #his

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#age #century #end #having #leaders

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#began #dawned #doing #got #i

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#die #drinking #going #i #only

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#i #like #mind #out #piece

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it. ↗

— Gil Kane

#had #helped #i #looking #me

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#cynicism #drinking #dropped #i #i think