Linda Leaming quote: "Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was getting ready to move there, and I told people I was going to work in Bhutan, they'd inevitably ask, "Where's Butane?"<br /><br />It is near Africa," I'd answer, to throw them off the trail. "It's where all the disposable lighters come from."<br /><br />They'd nod in understanding."

If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in o...
LINDA LEAMING

And it made me sad that in the U.S. we don’t mend things anymore. Mending and fixing broken things...
LINDA LEAMING

I have never been someone who likes rules or structure. I don't even like ruled notebook paper. Ther...
LINDA LEAMING

We didn’t have a vacuum or dishwasher. When I told my mother we didn’t have a washing machine, i...
LINDA LEAMING

He was stunned that almost every room in the house had a basket for trash tucked discreetly somewher...
LINDA LEAMING

Namgay, who grew up in the mountains of the Himalayas herding cows and sheep and being instructed by...
LINDA LEAMING

I wondered what a traffic report from my commute during Bhutan’s morning rush hour would sound lik...
LINDA LEAMING

As you rusticate, you'll encounter beauty and ugliness, peace and danger. But it will be real and of...
LINDA LEAMING

The notion of choice also intrigued Namgay, since the limited number of items in any given shop in T...
LINDA LEAMING

He rarely wanted to own any of the stuff; he was happy just to look.
LINDA LEAMING

Acceptance is so much a part of being in love, and love can make a person exceptional
LINDA LEAMING

Before we took the trip, he had never been on an elevator, eaten a hamburger, or enjoyed a chocolate...
LINDA LEAMING

As magical and strangely wonderful as I found Bhutan, so Namgay found the U.S. equally strange and w...
LINDA LEAMING

In the U.S., we were both surprised by the excessive array of things in the stores, and by the large...
LINDA LEAMING

When you’re occupied every minute of the day, there’s simply no time for this kind of awareness.
LINDA LEAMING

the mental energy here, the level of awareness that comes from paying attention, from having less st...
LINDA LEAMING

There’s too much structure in the world: too much insurance, litigation, unfulfilling work, fighti...
LINDA LEAMING

You find things when you're looking hard for other things. The trick is to be awake- which, granted ...
LINDA LEAMING

Just as Alice, when she walked through the looking glass, found herself in a new and whimsical world...
LINDA LEAMING

A man met the Buddha after the Buddha became enlightened. The man was awed by his remarkable radianc...
LINDA LEAMING

I submit that comfort is a diversion, and it’s not related to happiness.
LINDA LEAMING

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It ...
LINDA LEAMING

There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necess...
LINDA LEAMING

We don?t want to talk numbers while contractors are bidding the process.
GARY LEAMING

The number of cars trying to get through that area was pretty significant this weekend. We've got mo...
GARY LEAMING

They?re going to be working on the rail first and then doing the bridge decks as the final piece.
GARY LEAMING

The bonus system seems to be a lot more prevalent in the industry these days, rather than giving a r...
GEORGE LEAMING

Unless somebody's economy collapses, meaning the U.S. or China, I don't see demand dropping that muc...
GEORGE LEAMING

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the f...
LINDA MCCARTNEY

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and t...
LINDA CHAVEZ

When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON

I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON

Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this c...
LINDA RONSTADT

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory a...
LINDA GRANT

The new national campfire - radio.
LINDA ELLERBEE

Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and ...
LINDA MCMAHON

I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on,...
LINDA GRANT

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of L...
LINDA GRANT

I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. ...
LINDA RONSTADT

What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is i...
LINDA ELLINOR

Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government make...
LINDA RAWSON

Freedom is knowing who you really are.
LINDA THOMSON

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, ...
LINDA ELLERBEE

Saying a man had sex with a child is like saying a man had dinner with the pork chop.
LINDA MCCARRISTON

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
LINDA GRAYSON

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.
LINDA MCCARTNEY

¿Cómo es el refrán? ¿Karma Sutra: ¿El destino te ha follado en todo tipo de modos creati...
LINDA KAGE

Everyone feels, Aspen. Some are just better at covering it up.
LINDA KAGE

What we’re doing is wrong. Making it a one-time deal is wrong. Trying to convince ourselves...
LINDA KAGE

Do you feel that? Do you feel what we do together? This isn’t normal, Aspen. We are a force of fuc...
LINDA KAGE

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” - Elizabet...
LINDA KAGE

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell...
LINDA KAGE

You. Are. Mine … I don’t care how wrong we are for each other. I don’t care that I’ll never ...
LINDA KAGE

Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a...
LINDA KAGE

It's always the one you shouldn't want that you end up wanting the most
LINDA KAGE

Karma-sutra: fate fucking you in all kinds of creative ways
LINDA KAGE

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.
LINDA GERBER

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be goo...
LINDA FESTA

When we begin to realize that we are the co-creators of our lives, we begin to understand the incorp...
LINDA MCCORD

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war t...
LINDA GRANT

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the d...
LINDA ELLERBEE

I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
LINDA EVANGELISTA

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
LINDA BLANDFORD

You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.
LINDA RONSTADT

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empi...
LINDA GOODMAN

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
LINDA TALLEY

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very...
LINDA EVANS

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sittin...
LINDA BLAIR

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can'...
LINDA LINGLE

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I el...
LINDA HUNT

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of th...
LINDA THOMPSON

God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adaman...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.
LINDA MCCARTNEY

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
LINDA FIORENTINO

Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahea...
LINDA MCMAHON

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
LINDA BLAIR

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Re...
LINDA RONSTADT

I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that...
LINDA RONSTADT

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excur...
LINDA RONSTADT

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.
LINDA RONSTADT

I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then,...
LINDA RONSTADT

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop r...
LINDA RONSTADT

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which...
LINDA RONSTADT

I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the...
LINDA RONSTADT

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.
LINDA RONSTADT

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been ...
LINDA RONSTADT

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
LINDA RONSTADT

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don...
LINDA RONSTADT

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by mys...
LINDA RONSTADT

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.
LINDA RONSTADT

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
LINDA RONSTADT

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
LINDA RONSTADT

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ...
LINDA RONSTADT

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson'...
LINDA RONSTADT

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you ...
LINDA RONSTADT

I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from p...
LINDA RONSTADT

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, disciplin...
LINDA RONSTADT

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible f...
LINDA RONSTADT

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better...
LINDA RONSTADT

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a lit...
LINDA RONSTADT

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi...
LINDA RONSTADT

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could ...
LINDA GRAY

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to ...
LINDA CHAVEZ

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because ...
LINDA GRANT

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the w...
LINDA RONSTADT

Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.
LINDA RAWSON

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.
LINDA FIORENTINO

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas...
LINDA LAVIN

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
LINDA LINGLE

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
LINDA EVANGELISTA

I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the ...
LINDA HOWARD

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely...
LINDA MCCARTNEY

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcas...
LINDA GRANT

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you migh...
LINDA MCMAHON

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and b...
LINDA SANCHEZ

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patt...
LINDA CHAVEZ

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
LINDA TRIPP

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
LINDA HUNT

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointme...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most b...
LINDA CHAVEZ

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope ...
LINDA THOMPSON

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ...
LINDA EVANS

I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the off...
LINDA SANCHEZ

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it wh...
LINDA VESTER

I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I...
LINDA EVANGELISTA

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bed...
LINDA LAVIN

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never h...
LINDA GERBER

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the gir...
LINDA KOZLOWSKI

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w...
LINDA MCMAHON

Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwas...
LINDA RONSTADT

Did you know that at one time trick-or-treating was stopped? It's true. During World War II children...
LINDA BOZZO

We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership L...
LINDA MCMAHON

I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's som...
LINDA CARDELLINI

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dinin...
LINDA VESTER

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
LINDA MCCARTNEY

The concept of community involvement is a joke.
LINDA ARCHER

We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.
LINDA ARCHER

It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere.
LINDA ARCHER

I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little...
LINDA ARCHER

In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it...
LINDA ANDREASSI

The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by...
LINDA ANDREASSI

The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the ca...
LINDA ANDREASSI

You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.
LINDA ANDREASSI

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her b...
LINDA ALLEN

He told me he wasn't getting into the middle of this.
LINDA ALLEN

We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.
LINDA ALLEN

We have good home cooking.
LINDA ALLEN

We want the customer to always get a lot of food for a little money.
LINDA ALLEN

In many ways, we're just the friendly neighbor next door lending a hand to someone whose own friendl...
LINDA ALLEN

This increase in funding will allow us to better meet the more urgent needs of the visitors we serve...
LINDA ALLEN

The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been d...
LINDA ALLEN

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be...
LINDA ALLEN

There's a real trickle down effect when there isn't much snow. Resorts, restaurants, ski shops - we'...
LINDA ALLEN

We don't always connect ourselves with our history.
LINDA AIKEN

I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however.
LINDA AIKEN

All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.
LINDA AIKEN

We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity...
LINDA AIKEN

I just don't know why people would want to buy new furniture today.
LINDA ADAMS

The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.
LINDA ADAMS

We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in.
LINDA ADAMS

I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd rather...
LINDA ADAMS

It seems to be a regular pattern.
LINDA ADAMS

A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.
LINDA ADAMS

We are really excited at how our campus has grown and is continuing to grow.
LINDA ADAMS

Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dress...
LINDA BOWLES

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing bu...
LINDA BERDOLL

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there...
LINDA HOGAN

It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not per...
LINDA BERDOLL

How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them littl...
LINDA BERDOLL

Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
LINDA BERDOLL

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.
LINDA BERDOLL

The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
LINDA KNIGHT

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.
LINDA EVANGELISTA

A lot of times, it is based on a child?s personality. If they are the type of child to ask a million...
LINDA CULLEN

The most important thing is to let these women know we?re here to support them whichever decision th...
LINDA CULLEN

As people are waiting to celebrate the birth of Christ every year, many people connect with what we ...
LINDA CULLEN

I WAS BORN FOR THE MAJORS TO MAKE A MAJOR IMPACT & MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS THEREFORE...
LINDA SCONIERS

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin
LINDA HOGAN

Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast, and connect fast
LINDA CHANDLER

I had been doing framing for 10 years before moving here. I am one of only two certified picture fra...
LINDA RAWSON

Not only do they learn character development, but they learn basic life skills. We also teach them j...
LINDA WILLIS

The sad thing is you have a mother and daughter separated.
LINDA WILLIS

At some point this family has to start healing.
LINDA WILLIS

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Vict...
LINDA SANCHEZ

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.
LINDA EVANS

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are...
LINDA MCMAHON

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist...
LINDA MCCARTNEY

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