Bernard Lown Quotes
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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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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 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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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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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
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You will have ups and downs - but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.
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Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
