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" I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin. "

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" We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings. "

" I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. "

" You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones. "

" If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain. "

" When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed. "

" I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality. "

" I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know. "

" I try to stay positive and be very, very active. "

" Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now. "

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" I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight. "

" I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state. "

" When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?' "

" The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return. "

" My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are. "

" I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? "

" When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you? "

" I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. "

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" No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. "

" It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money. "

" I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain. "

" During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.' "

" You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way. "

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" I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain. "