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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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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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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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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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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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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Being faster would probably make me better at football.
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
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For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
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I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
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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.
