Billy Howle Quotes
A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
Quotes to Explore
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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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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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.
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In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
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A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.
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A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
