"You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry."
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"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."
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"You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it."
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"Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love."
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"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."
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"My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets."
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"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules."
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"Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."
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"Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in."
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"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us"
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"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
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"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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"The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct."
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"Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct."
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"I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation."
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"I live on my gut instinct."
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"I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more."
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"Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity."
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"Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities."
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