Lindsay Wagner Quotes

#1. I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.

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#2. I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

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#3. When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

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#4. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Bernard Berenson

#5. The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

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#6. From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#7. I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

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#8. Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

Charles Kennedy

#9. And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

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#10. I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

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#11. If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

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#12. There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.

Peter Ackroyd

#13. It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

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#14. We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Yakov Smirnoff

#15. Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

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#16. I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies' room, and I'm in the stall doing my business, and a piece of paper and pen came from outside the door, and she says, 'Ms. Wagner, would you please sign this for me?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me?'

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#17. Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

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#18. Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

Shirley Horn

#19. We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

Studs Terkel

#20. Drake was finishing his game of bowls;

Winston S. Churchill

#21. There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

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#22. Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.

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#23. The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

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#24. I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.

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#25. Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

Dmitry Bilozerchev

#26. There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

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#27. I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

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#28. I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.

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#29. Wall is a frontier for the cow but not for the bird! What makes something frontier for you is the abilities you possess!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

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#31. I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Joyce Maynard

#32. A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

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#33. My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

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#34. My favorite splurges are cheese pizza with hot peppers, Haagen-Dazs maple-walnut ice cream, Giant brand ice cream sandwiches, and fire sticks - those hot candies the size of a three-inch ruler.

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#35. Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

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#36. Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

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#37. But this larger and more adventurous Christian universe has one final mark difficult to express; yet as a conclusion of the whole matter I will attempt to express

G.K. Chesterton

#38. Can I ask you why there was the imprint of an ass on great-grandma's table? I got up the other morning and come in here to have my coffee. I sat down and got ready to read the paper , when low and behold I was confronted with the imprint of an ass on the table.

Alex Morgan

#39. If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.

Lindsay Wagner

#40. I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

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#41. This garden is your soul. This mess is you! Together, you and I, we have been working with a purpose in your heart. And it is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process. To you it seems like a mess, but I see a perfect pattern emerging and growing and alive - a living fractal.

Wm. Paul Young

#42. Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

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