Bernie Glassman Quotes

I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

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• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

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• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

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• I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
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• When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

  

  Sam Walton
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• I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

  

  Sam Heughan
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  • Myself
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• People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
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• Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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• A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

  

  Alton Brown
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  • Advice

• Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

  

  Andrea Barrett
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• My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
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• I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.

  

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• If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

  

  Charlie Brooker

• No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

  

  Alexander Herzen
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• My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
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  • Sky

• Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
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• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  

  Iain Banks
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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  

  Dan Pallotta
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• I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
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• I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Angry
  • Imagine
  • Upset