Melody Beattie Quotes

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

Melody Beattie

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We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Steven Pinker

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It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Tony Visconti

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One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Ron Chernow

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I'm way too honest. It can backfire.

Michaela Coel

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Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Miranda Rae Mayo

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When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.

Dolph Ziggler

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Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

Dick Morris

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'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.

Douglas Trumbull

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I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Brian Eno

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It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

Brad Feld

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There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Annabella Sciorra

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Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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