Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes
We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people.
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We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.
