Deepak Chopra Quotes
Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
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If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage.
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
