Bernie Siegel Quotes
I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
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God doesn't just love all of us. He loves each of us.
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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
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I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.
