Kent Nerburn Quotes
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.
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It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.
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Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.
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You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
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Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
