Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.


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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's...
DENIS DIDEROT
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con...
DENIS WATLEY
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT
We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is qu...
DENIS MCDONOUGH
The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...
DENIS DIDEROT
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...
DENIS DIDEROT
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT
Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
DENIS DIDEROT
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled gr...
DENIS KEARNEY
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
DENIS LEARY
Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving...
DENIS LEARY
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and...
DENIS LEARY
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use ma...
DENIS LEARY
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY
The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY
I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all ...
DENIS LEARY
What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS