Zelig Pliskin Quotes
Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too.
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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
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The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
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Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.
