Byron Katie Quotes
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
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I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
