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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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
