Barbara Deming Quotes
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I like to discover new things.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
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The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
