"The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness."

-- Martin Seligman

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“How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?”
“I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.”
“Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.”
“There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.”
“The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.”
“If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.”
“I'm not here to promote your pride.”

Source : "Exclusive: Why Rep. Jo Jordan voted against Marriage Equality". Interview by Diane Lee, www.honolulumagazine.com. November 8, 2013.

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