Bernard Lown Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.
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a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
