David D. Burns Quotes

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

David D. Burns

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I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

Joan Armatrading

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I think I'd work a little more if I lived in L.A.

Andre Braugher

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I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

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Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.

Robert Picardo

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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Mia Wasikowska

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Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

Louise Gluck

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It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Luciano Pavarotti

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I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.

Joyner Lucas

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I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Dick Schaap

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