Drew Pinsky Quotes

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Drew Pinsky

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : September 4, 1958

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

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I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.

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You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.

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What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

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Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

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An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

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Addiction is not a curable condition.

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I have no agenda.

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People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

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People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

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Students have tons of health and intimacy and relationship questions, and no one's listening to them.

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Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

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I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.

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Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

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I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

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My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem.

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In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.

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For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.

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The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.

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I rescue people.

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