"The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop."

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Source : "The Biology of Luck". Book by Jacob Appel, 2013.

Jacob M. Appel

#Sex Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Persuading Quotes

“I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's so much space here! You can have a home studio. In New York you had to rent a room to do a session or to practice. As a solo artist, it was a lot more expensive. Here there is that comfort in lifestyle a little bit more, being able to breathe a little bit more, and creatively flow, not having to stress about how to get our gear there in a cab and pay by the hour, it's just a different vibe.”
“Everybody hates you when youre the best, and everybody hates you when youre the worst.”
“The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”

Source : "Go West". www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.
“A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.”
“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”
“What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.”

Source : "Marc Anthony: Don't call it 'Latin music'". www.cnn.com. October 26, 1999.
“I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.”

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