Bernie Glassman Quotes
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Artists need to express.
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The truth is, there are many types of businesses that require thousands of dollars to be invested during the startup period. However, there are also many different types of business models that you can run from the comfort of your own home without having to reach too deep into your wallet.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
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It was a nice change of pace to come to work, put on a nice suit and stay clean all day.
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To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
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The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
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Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.
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Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
