Virginia Satir Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
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People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
