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Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.


David R. Ellis

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ALBERT ELLIS People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi...
ALBERT ELLIS As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock ...
ALBERT ELLIS Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of...
ALBERT ELLIS He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.
ALBERT ELLIS I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't,...
ALBERT ELLIS I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the...
ALBERT ELLIS For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe...
NELSAN ELLIS What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the nee...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and...
HAVELOCK ELLIS The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable ex...
HAVELOCK ELLIS ...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of vie...
HAVELOCK ELLIS So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS