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Brad Pitt

"Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me."

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.24, D & M Publishers

Brad Pitt

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“When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.”
“I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere”
“A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.”
“I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.”
“Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade, I've studied people with uncanny abilities - card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here's the thing: These weren't innate skills - they were acquired.”

Source : "The Easiest Way To Get A Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2015.
“To be fearless is to be reckless. I think you need a certain level of fear because you need to respect the danger and the minute you stop sensing fear, that's the minute you stop respecting the danger, and that's when things can happen. Obviously, you can't panic. It can't be overwhelming. It can't be paralyzing. You always need to have that pit in your stomach. You always need to have that awareness about you.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.”
“I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who was going to win and who wasn't, and if the person was present behind his eyes, if he was looking around and paying attention, you could be pretty sure he wasn't going to win. The person who was tranced out had a much better chance of winning. Because he or she had lost his or her governing self.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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