Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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You've got to live and die by your decisions.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
