Gavin de Becker Quotes
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
