Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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No... I don't like Slayer.
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My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.
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Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws.
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Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
