Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.
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I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
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The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.
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The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.
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Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
