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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."

"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"

"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."

"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
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"I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then."

"I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that."

"I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then."

"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."

"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."

"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."

"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."

"The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing."

"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience."
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