Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

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• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• I respect music, I do. I love it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
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• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
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• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
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• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
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• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of empathy with the men. Without excusing the abuse they are capable of, many of them are trapped within these communities and bound by expectations they didn't necessarily ask for.

  

  Deeyah Khan
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  • Women
  • Abuse

• My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.

  

  Elif Batuman
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  • School
  • America

• What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Lost
  • Ifs
  • Meant To Be

• A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
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• The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
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