Bette Ford Quotes
For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
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Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.
