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David D. Burns Quotes

I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.

David D. Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Good Time People Feeling Good First

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Joe Paterno

Name Back Matters Jersey Most Front

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Meat Loaf

War Me Management Electricity Early

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Understand Expensive Got Film Even

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Stanley Crouch

Democracy Reading You Too Much Know

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

Imagination Man Blind Reality Like

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Myself Table Situation Want Playing

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.

Michael Leunig

God Words Joy Moments Feeling Say

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Denzel Washington

Rain You Mud Pray Deal Pray For

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

David Slade

Picture You Go Want Director Clear

I've always felt like my job is to protect my sister. Even growing up, on the playground, when my sister was too shy, I would speak for her... I even had dreams where I had to save her, growing up, all the time - like, she was falling, and I had to save her.

Christen Press

Dreams Time Job Sister Growing Up

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Claire Danes

Travel People World Places Outside

I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours.

Winnie Harlow

I Am Brain You Skin Human Same