Bernie Siegel Quotes
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.
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Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
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I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.
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Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.
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My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.
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I'm a very passive investor.
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
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I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue... Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.
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I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.
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One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
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I have to say, not a day goes by when I don't think fondly about 'Deadwood' and miss things about it.
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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
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A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no faith in anything but their own instincts. Boxing provides a way for them to express themselves in a positive way, and I'm happy to be able to help them.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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Competition brings out the best.
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An area in which more rather than less government involvement is needed, in my judgment, is the rooting out of fraud. It is the bane of any market system.
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In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.
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Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
