Bernard Lown Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are.
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I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.
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Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
