Oliver Burkeman
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Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, wi... OLIVER BURKEMAN Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the cravi... OLIVER BURKEMAN Ultimately, what defines the ‘cult of optimism’ and the culture of positive thinking – even in... OLIVER BURKEMAN The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning,’ argued the social psychologist Erich Fromm... OLIVER BURKEMAN Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us ju... OLIVER BURKEMAN Develop a strong attachment to your good looks – as opposed to merely enjoying them while they las... OLIVER BURKEMAN And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For t... OLIVER BURKEMAN For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that w... OLIVER BURKEMAN I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better... OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to... OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ... OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact... OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people... OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T... OLIVER JOHN OLIVER JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -... 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OLIVER PLATT The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity... OLIVER PLATT People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha... OLIVER PLATT OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev... OLIVER KAHN This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics. OLIVER KAHN When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest. OLIVER KAHN If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best. OLIVER KAHN There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most im... OLIVER KAHN We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. OLIVER KAHN Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs. OLIVER KAHN I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are prob... OLIVER KAHN If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen. OLIVER KAHN I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. OLIVER HUDSON My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It... OLIVER HUDSON You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someo... OLIVER HUDSON Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life. OLIVER HUDSON Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. OLIVER HUDSON His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop yo... OLIVER HUDSON We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. OLIVER HUDSON I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was ... OLIVER HUDSON Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. OLIVER HUDSON Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. OLIVER HUDSON Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose ... OLIVER HUDSON OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD That's another fine mess you've gotten me into. OLIVER HARDY We never see ourselves as others see us. OLIVER HARDY OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it. OLIVER EVANS It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and inv... OLIVER EVANS OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER HERFORD JOHN OLIVER JAMIE OLIVER OLIVER TAMBO German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt... OLIVER MARKUS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS JOHN OLIVER JOHN OLIVER In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us... BARRET OLIVER Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which... BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not... BARRET OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER TAMBO JOHN OLIVER OLIVER HERFORD If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a ... VIC OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER NORTH MARY OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. OLIVER WENDELL OLIVER GOLDSMITH Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no... PETER OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – 
Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you�... 
That’s when I realized that I really loved you.” 
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. 
They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change your
It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget�... 
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you... 
Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all... 
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to ke... 
Ron, it’s all okay, the Muggles say I can come. See you five o’clock tomorrow. Can’t wait. 
You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s ... 
Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as ... 
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the... 
It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I j... 
Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca... 
Guilt?” he remarked in prison. “It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusi... 
In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some bel... 
Why didn’t we before?” I say. “Because it’s costly. But everyone agrees this is the thing to... 
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really kn... 
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss i... 
I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad... 
You may live or work around a bunch of weeds, but don’t let that stop you from blooming. Realize t... 
Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic. 
If a woman truly loves you, you can’t always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more... 
I can’t”… “It’s not possible”… “I’m not good enough”... ~ These are lies the dem... 
giants. They can’t all be horrible. . . . It’s the same sort of prejudice that people have to... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that... 
As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in ... 
Wherever you are, be all there. 
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don... 
So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” And anyone who can’... 
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... 
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were alre... 
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know... 
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe th... 
I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you’re dead, but I think there must be ... 
Things you might hear,
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when... 
It’s funny how when it’s somebody else telling the story it’s easy to see that He can’t take... 
It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer ... 
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. 
You see, it’s about empathy. It’s not about you. It’s about empathy. It’s not even about car... 
Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth. 
I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? Y... 
It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say. 
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not. 
Jesse, we can’t do this.” 
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Success is a combination of Effort, Talent and Hard Work .there’s got to be hard work and mental t... 
Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll ne... 
CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo... 
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. 
In any film there's always a historical implication. 
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th... 
If the money's right, I'll do a film. 
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr... 
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi... 
God knows, we don't want prayer. 
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w... 
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, bu... 
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you... 
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. 
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout... 
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated ... 
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t... 
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. 
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is i... 
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ... 
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody'... 
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just as it ... 
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again... 