Bonnie Friedman Quotes
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
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When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
