Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.
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The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
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I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
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I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
