Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes
Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.
