#seduced

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#aware #being #car #changed #daughter

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. ↗

— John Perkins

#felt #guilty #i #me #money

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#into #make #profit #seduced #thinking

My anger with him had grown as the hours had passed. I'd convinced myself when he came to get me i would really give him a piece of my mind. Of course - it's easy to be brave when the object of your fear isn't holding your sore nipples hostage. ~ Livvie ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#seduced-in-the-dark #anger

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#depressed #failure #go #guiding #life

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ↗

— Don Marquis

#into #man #must #seduced #uplifted

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#good #good people #most #people #power

For the love of Christ, shut - up! Let a bitch enjoy her mental breakdown in peace. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#love