David D. Burns Quotes
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.
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It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can't make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that's true, that means it should be more expensive. Not 'should' in any moral sense, but simply because that's how the principle of supply and demand works.
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I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
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I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.
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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
