David D. Burns Quotes
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.David D. Burns
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White -
A lot of people don't get second chances.
Tamar Braxton -
I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
Daniel Boulud -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson -
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
Warren Farrell -
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm a natural blonde!
Natalie Dormer -
All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
Dan Stevens -
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
Laila Ali -
I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos -
We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
Nan Hayworth -
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall -
Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.
Michael Douglas -
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Pankaj Mishra -
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Burt Rutan -
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns