Bob Buckhorn Quotes
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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It gets late early out there.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
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I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'
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Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
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Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable?
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Practicing mindfulness calms down the sympathetic nervous system, so that you are less likely to be thrown into fight-or-flight.11 Learning to observe and tolerate your physical reactions is a prerequisite for safely revisiting the past. If you cannot tolerate what you are feeling right now, opening up the past will only compound the misery and retraumatize you further.12 We can tolerate a great deal of discomfort as long as we stay conscious of the fact that the body’s commotions constantly shift. One moment your chest tightens, but after you take a deep breath and exhale, that feeling softens and you may observe something else, perhaps a tension in your shoulder. Now you can start exploring what happens when you take a deeper breath and notice how your rib cage expands.13 Once you feel calmer and more curious, you can go back to that sensation in your shoulder. You should not be surprised if a memory spontaneously arises in which that shoulder was somehow involved.
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Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
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The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
