Bernie Siegel Quotes
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.
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Friends are flowers in life's garden.
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Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
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Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.
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If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
