Andy Puddicombe Quotes
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.
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I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
