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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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.
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Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.
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Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.
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Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
