Andrew Weil Quotes
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.
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Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?
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If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
