Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
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Something may be fully approved of … well transmitted … well cogitated ... well pondered, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be well pondered, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken. Under these conditions it is not proper for a wise man who preserves truth to come to the definite conclusion: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
