1. As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
  2. Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
  3. Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
  4. I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
  5. I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
  6. If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
  7. If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
  8. If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
  9. In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
  10. Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
  11. This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
  12. To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
  13. We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
  14. We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
  15. We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
  16. What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
  17. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
  18. You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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  1. Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
  2. Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
  3. Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
  4. I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
  5. I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
  6. I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
  7. I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
  8. I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
  9. In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
  10. In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
  11. Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
  12. Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
  13. Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
  14. Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
  15. The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
  16. These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
  17. Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
  18. We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
  19. We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
  20. When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
  21. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

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  1. Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
  2. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
  3. God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
  4. I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
  5. I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
  6. I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
  7. I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
  8. I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
  9. Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  10. Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
  11. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
  12. Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
  13. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
  14. Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
  15. Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

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  1. After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
  2. Beauty is not caused. It is.
  3. Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
  4. Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
  5. Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
  6. For love is immortality.
  7. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
  8. How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
  9. I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
  10. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
  11. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
  12. Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
  13. Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
  14. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
  15. Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
  16. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
  17. Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
  18. The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
  19. There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
  20. They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
  21. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
  22. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
  23. To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
  24. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
  25. Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
  26. Where thou art, that is home.

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  1. A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!
  2. A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
  3. Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
  4. Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
  5. Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
  6. Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
  7. I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
  8. I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
  9. I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
  10. I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
  11. I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
  12. I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
  13. I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
  14. I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
  15. I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
  16. I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
  17. I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
  18. My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
  19. The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
  20. The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
  21. You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

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  1. As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
  2. Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
  3. Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
  4. Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.
  5. I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
  6. I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
  7. I don't need faith.
  8. I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
  9. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
  10. I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
  11. I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
  12. I'm not afraid of death.
  13. In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
  14. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
  15. Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
  16. My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
  17. My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
  18. The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
  19. There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
  20. To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
  21. What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
  22. When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being

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  1. A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
  2. America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
  3. Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
  4. For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
  5. I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
  6. I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
  7. I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
  8. I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
  9. I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
  10. I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
  11. If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
  12. It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
  13. It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
  14. It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.
  15. I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
  16. I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
  17. Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
  18. The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
  19. There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
  20. To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
  21. Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
  22. When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.
  23. When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
  24. When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

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  1. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
  2. A woman has the age she deserves.
  3. A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
  4. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
  5. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
  6. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
  7. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
  8. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
  9. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
  10. Great loves too must be endured.
  11. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
  12. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
  13. I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
  14. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
  15. Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
  16. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
  17. There are people who have money and people who are rich.
  18. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
  19. Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
  20. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

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  1. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
  2. Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
  3. Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
  4. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
  5. Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
  6. History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
  7. In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
  8. Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
  9. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
  10. Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
  11. Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
  12. Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
  13. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  14. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
  15. Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
  16. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
  17. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
  18. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
  19. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
  20. Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
  21. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
  22. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
  23. Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
  24. War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
  25. We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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  1. A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
  2. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
  3. A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
  4. For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
  5. Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
  6. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
  7. If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
  8. Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
  9. It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
  10. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
  11. Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
  12. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  13. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
  14. Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
  15. The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
  16. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
  17. The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
  18. There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
  19. There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
  20. To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
  21. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
  22. When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
  23. When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

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  1. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
  2. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
  3. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
  4. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
  5. He who keeps his cool best wins.
  6. History is a vast early warning system.
  7. Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
  8. It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
  9. It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
  10. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
  11. Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
  12. My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
  13. People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
  14. Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
  15. The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
  16. The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
  17. The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
  18. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
  19. We will not have peace by afterthought.
  20. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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  1. A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
  2. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
  3. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
  4. Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
  5. I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
  6. I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
  7. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
  8. In war there is no substitute for victory.
  9. In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
  10. It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
  11. It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
  12. I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
  13. Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
  14. One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
  15. Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
  16. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
  17. The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
  18. The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
  19. They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

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  1. Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
  2. And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
  3. As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
  4. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
  5. Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
  6. Faith is personal if it's to be real.
  7. I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
  8. I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
  9. I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
  10. I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
  11. I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
  12. I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
  13. In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
  14. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
  15. My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
  16. Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
  17. One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
  18. Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
  19. Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
  20. The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
  21. You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

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  1. Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
  2. Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.
  3. I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
  4. I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.
  5. I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.
  6. I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.
  7. I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.
  8. I normally ignore the History Channel.
  9. I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.
  10. I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
  11. If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.
  12. I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
  13. It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
  14. People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
  15. People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
  16. Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
  17. The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.
  18. There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
  19. To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
  20. You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

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  1. Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
  2. Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
  3. Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
  4. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  5. Education is the transmission of civilization.
  6. Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
  7. Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
  8. History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
  9. In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
  10. It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
  11. Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
  12. Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
  13. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
  14. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  15. Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
  16. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
  17. Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  18. The family is the nucleus of civilization.
  19. The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
  20. There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
  21. There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
  22. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
  23. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
  24. Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
  25. We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
  26. We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

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