Bernadette Roberts Quotes
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
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Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.
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Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
