Debbie Ford Quotes

With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Know
  • Environment

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Adventure

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Family
  • History
  • Want

• 'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Me
  • Feel

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Friendly
  • Warm
  • Member

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Age
  • Proud

• When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Car
  • Down
  • Nobody

• Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And I could put your game console on eBay." "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Game
  • Console

• Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  

  George Will
  • Today
  • Imagination
  • Eye

• With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Past