"To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them,"

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Source : "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

Scott Stossel

#Home Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Cells Quotes

“One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”
“I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.”
“No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.”
“Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.”

Source : "Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.
“I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.”
“Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics explains Trump. The US is doing relatively well, the economy has significantly recovered since 2008, unemployment rates are low. I would say rather that his appeal to the working class was cultural: "I'll bring back the kinds of jobs your fathers had," and, by implication, the whiter, simpler post-war world when America had no real economic competition.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.”

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