Charles Eisenstein Quotes
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'
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Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.
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I'll never like virtual keypads. Nothing can compete with an actual QWERTY-style keypad.
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I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
