Chris Milk Quotes
I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
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To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.
