Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

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• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

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• I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • School