Krista Tippett Quotes
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.
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... a supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women.... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.
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Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
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Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
