Wayne Dyer Quotes
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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Time will heal everything.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.
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When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
