David D. Burns Quotes

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Topics

TruthPeopleSayingProblemFinding

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

John Ciardi

MoneyRichAncestorsOverGoneLeft

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann

MyselfSpacePictureThreeProtect

Election security is national security, and we have to start acting like it.

Amy Klobuchar

StartActingSecurityElectionLike

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

John Polanyi

TruthLibertyScholarshipOverTake

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

Sienna Miller

Not PerfectPerfect

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Rupert Murdoch

HomeMeEverybodyExceptSpeaks

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

Louise Fletcher

AloneWomanManTrainingNew York

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

Denis Leary

GoodFunPlayingGood GuysJust

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

Bobby Hull

JobGameHockeyBetterProfessional

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

FriendLiveBestMomBest FriendGo

I worked at a place called Virco. They build school desks.

Scottie Pippen

SchoolPlaceBuildWorked

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

Richard Linklater

TimeMeLongNobodyKnowLong Time

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