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1343 Personality Quotes

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Always Back Holding Lose
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Beings Body Everyday Experience
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Get Just Love Want
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Authenticity Courage Find Lives
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Anger Capable Carry Heart
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Attention Because Commitment Energy
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Always Time Create Difficult
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Age Because Circumstances Life
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

About Anything Change Control
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Always Bless Difference Giver
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Ability Everything Gift Greatest
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Brain Difficult Does Feeling
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Just Men More Sensitive
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Beings Challenges Drama Earth
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Choice Love Make Moment
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Becoming Between Dance Life
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Burning Even Good Great
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Day-To-Day Evidence Hear Know
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Book Break Distinct Down
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Being One Of The Problems People Problems
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Air Assume Effect Funny
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Any Delivering Fact Harder
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

About Always Am Conversations
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Another Another Way Because Creative
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Bad Care Reason Sound
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Easiest Effective Most Somebody
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Close Consciousness Feeling Harder
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Been Number People Shocked
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Actually Behalf Done Events
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

Got Interesting Oh Realized
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

About Edit Everything Influenced
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Being Fact Go Great
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Anything Interviewer Listener Natural
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

Bubble Little Live My Own
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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

About Care Don't Care Honestly
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

I Tried Job Jobs Long
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

Both Breakfast Day Desk
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Am Anything Better Big
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