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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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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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 would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.
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My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show Desperate Housewives. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
