"If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground."

-- Henrik Ibsen

#Confidence Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.”
“No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.”

Source : "Jason Aldean interview: New country superstar keeps practical approach despite success". Interview with John Serba, www.mlive.com. February 13, 2014.
“I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.”
“Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.”
“For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.”
“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”
“I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.”
“Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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