Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.
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But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
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I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
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Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
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My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
