Patti Smith Quotes

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Patti Smith

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GriefExperiencePeopleGivingYou

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

John Ortberg

EvilRealOutConvinceVictims

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

Robert Preston

BestPicturesDoneAvoid

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

Steve Brown

YouKnowCheapRetroStonesBeatles

Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.

Steve Erickson

GameSeasonsPlaceAggressiveOut

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Tom Ford

MeSomeoneSellingYoungSayWant

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

GoodBusinessPeopleProductCompany

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

Michelle Rodriguez

GoKnowStreetFighterSidesBox

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Derek Jeter

WishDoingYouWantFinishAnything

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

Dean Ornish

EyesFeelDoingExerciseMeditation

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

Christopher Alexander

LifeNatureBelieveBuildingsPerson

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Chris Martin

BeautifulThinkKnowAnything

Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

Christy Turlington

ExperienceDeathMeGiftLossSee

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