Bernie Siegel Quotes

I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.

Bernie Siegel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1932

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If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

Jermaine Dupri

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And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Anna Friel

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I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Michael Biehn

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I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Steven Pinker

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I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

Rob Halford

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Real wrestling fans always knew Hogan couldn't wrestle. And he's not exactly an intellectual, either... The path he chose is very simple. He wears spandex in the airport. That's his identification as a man.

Roddy Piper

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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.

Denise Van Outen

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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

Anne Carson

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Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family.

Allu Arjun

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