David Whyte Quotes
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.
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All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.
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In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.
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I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.
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I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.
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The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
