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“I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.”

“Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.”

Want Feels Kind Quiet Lonely Empty Filled Western Connected Miserable Emptiness Eastern Feeling Lonely Energizing

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.”

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Author:Amanda Palmer

“I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.”

Complaining Get Up Miserable

Author:Billy Eichner

“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.”

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Author:Dan Harris

“I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.”

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Author:Edmund Hillary

“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”

Wells May Might Night Literature Air Kissing Paper Window Miserable Kissing You Inspirational Good Night

Book:Letters to Felice

Source: Letters to Felice

“If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.”

People Ifs Long Ideas Term Can Do Loss Worst Projects Following Miserable Sensitive Long Term Short Term Bad Ideas

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.”

Shows Internet Ruins Miserable Troll Internet Trolls

Author:Kevin Biegel

“Shortly after Eva's [Braun] second attempt at suicide, [Adolf] Hitler moved quickly, as we discussed already. I can't tell you how difficult it was for her living at the apartment of our parents. I wasn't happy there, but Eva was miserable, I can tell you that.”

I Can Parent Difficult Suicide Moved Miserable Apartment

Author:Gretl Braun

“We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.”

Thinking Want Play Found Fun Pleasure Granted Miserable Enjoyment Imports

Author:Ian Bogost

“We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.”

Ifs Thinking Way Home Would Be Order Findings Spread Miserable Sugar Tolerate Depressing Live Your Life Way Of Thinking Diabetes Tasting Descending Swallowing Home Life

Author:Ian Bogost

“If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.”

Ifs Writing Trying Ends Fit Rounds Holes Finance Miserable Squares Banking Going To Work Peg Square Pegs

Author:Robert Greene

“If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.”

Ifs Knows Way Wells I Can Different Character Home Film Night Next Forever Stage Scene Performances Mess Miserable Different Ways Ruined Hook Going To Work Because I Can Alright Arcs

Author:Emma Stone

“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.”

Ifs Men Remember President Cutting Team Gay Suicide Committed Expected Magazines Miserable California Covered Swimming Scholar Crew Commentary Gay Men Swim Team

Author:Kevin Sessums

“Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it. Then it would be for the joy of writing it. It wouldn't be like, "And it's going to be No. 1 and I'm going to get rich and go on a book tour and own a library." I don't know the difference between doing what I normally do and making a resolution. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to be miserable.”

Ifs Knows Writing Years Book Happens Would Be Joy Differences Rich Goes On Library Miserable Resolution Get Rich

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.”

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Author:Lynne Tillman

“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.”

“God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent wonders from the sky and words from Scripture. He sent the testimony of the heavens and the teaching of the prophets. But Herod refused to listen. He chose his puny dynasty over Christ. He died a miserable old man.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.”

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Author:Jeff Ross

“My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.”

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Author:Jay Mohr

“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.”

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Author:Mark Coleman

“I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.”

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Author:Bill Moyers

“I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.”

Ifs Want Trying Wells Reason America Past Built Victim Angry Democrat Excuse Miserable Ems No Reason Bigotry Homophobia Derision Trying To Be Happy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then we end on the beach in the Caribbean filming for two days in the sea. That was fun. We literally did the last shot as the sun was coming up in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. It was a nice way to end it, because they were considering shooting it in the sea in Vancouver, which would not have worked at all.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.”

People Want Dream Fantasy Kings Miserable Queens Miserable Life

Author:Robin Leach

“Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.”

People Thinking Life Is Horror Miserable Korean

Author:Robert Scheer

“The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large numbers, it must be something wrong with them. It leads young kids of color to look around and say: "There must be something wrong with me, there must be something wrong with us. Is there something inherent, something different about me, about us as a people, that leads us to fail so often, that leads us to live in these miserable conditions, that leads us to go in and out of prison?"”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?”

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Author:Bette Midler

“There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.”

Way Life Is Stuff Drama Band Miserable Too Short Life Is Too Short

Author:Mike Dirnt

“Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving him my love, I'm cooking for him, he's got this great sex, he's got everything. Why is he so miserable all of a sudden? Why does he want to get away with his buddies and look at other girls? What is his problem?" It seems like something that happens to men, they feel like their manliness has been chipped away and destroyed by being with just one woman. They feel resentful and they're passive-aggressive.”

“Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.”

Thinking Seven Miserable Girlfriend My Girlfriend

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's a statement of fact. Because I've spent my life studying them so that I can predict them, so that I can warn people, because liberalism is destructive, as we've seen our whole lives. Aspects of liberalism in America under its control are in rotten shape, they're in horrible, rotten shape, and the people that live under liberal control are miserable and unhappy and constantly enraged.”

People Study Whole Life Unhappy Horrible Miserable Liberalism Brag

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.”

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Author:Bruce Campbell

“Some people in Indonesia say they are content, but in fact most of them are miserable. People say they are not poor, even if they take water from the gutter and live in a carton shack. They say they are not afraid, because even the horror they are experiencing every day, is not allowed here to be defined as fear. If it is, the families, the officials, and mass media, mock it.”

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Author:Andre Vltchek

“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.”

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Author:Claire Dederer

“I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.”

People Thinking Individual Miserable Productive

Author:Dan Ariely

“We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.”

People World Done Miserable

Author:Michio Kaku

“We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it's a very common story. Sometimes two wives living with a man in a 5 by 10 foot room. It's a very miserable economic situation.”

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Author:Yanar Mohammed

“Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.”

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Author:Francois Arnaud

“I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.”

Thinking School Fit Summer Unhappy Miserable Rebel Stereotype

Author:Iris Apfel

“Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But the bulk of your life is working with people and collaborating so you don't want anyone to be miserable on your film either. You want it to be something that people walk away from saying that it was a good experience for them and hopefully a good film. As a director, you are sort of leader of that troupe for that period of time, so you're aware of morale and your effect - how you are as a person and how that sort of trickles down to everyone else.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppression. So if you can be in the ruling party elite, socialism, communism, you've got it made. That's less than one half of one-tenth a percent of the population in those countries.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.”

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Author:Ira Glass

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