Barbara Ann Kipfer Quotes
Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.
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If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.
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Happiness is a good flow of life.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
