Charles Eisenstein Quotes
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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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 want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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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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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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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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I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
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My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I shopped at thrift stores. And I'm petite - I never looked shapely. I remember thinking, 'Will I ever have that stereotypical round, full butt that people think most black women have? I had to find another way to feel good about myself.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
