Virginia Satir Quotes
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
Quotes to Explore
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.
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When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.
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Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked.' Such a doll.
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We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
