Joan Halifax Quotes
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.
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We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
