Deepak Chopra Quotes
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
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I really enjoy working on 'Scandal.' It's so much fun.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.
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Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
