"People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves."

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Ben Okri

#People Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.”

Source : "Cycle killer: David Byrne on the joys of cycling" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.
“I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.”
“I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”
“I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.”
“Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.”
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to â€œaccess.”

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