Deepak Chopra Quotes

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Deepak Chopra

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Something
  • More
  • Face

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Weird
  • Internet
  • Someone

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Religion

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Heart

• …the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Society
  • Reality

• Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Kid

• You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

  

  Deepak Chopra
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