David D. Burns Quotes
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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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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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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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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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
