Pema Chodron Quotes

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Pema Chodron

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There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

John Gurdon

ScienceBestPeopleSayingCareer

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Melinda Gates

LifeFoundationMoreNextPlanet

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

Mel Martinez

FocusSupportCubaMovementWithin

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

John Legend

WeddingSingerTeenager

I don't believe in fate.

John Wooden

BelieveFate

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

Romola Garai

WomenChildrenYouLateTransition

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Matt Berninger

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King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.

Lloyd Alexander

KingPersonAdmireWayNeverHeroes

Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'

Don Rickles

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Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

David Sedaris

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When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Ali MacGraw

BeautifulMeLookingBeautiful Things

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