David Whyte Quotes
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
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Lewandowski is very complete. He can hold on to the ball and build play; he can dribble. He can score goals from anywhere. He is fast, strong in the air.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
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Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.