David Whyte Quotes
Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
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People want real food. The demand for it is through the roof.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.
