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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

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• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Actor
  • Scripts
  • Prepare

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Person
  • Everything

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • School
  • She
  • Education

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• Obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues, and Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up

• Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Best
  • Young
  • West

• Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• I'm a fairly emotional guy and a fairly kind of aggressive player who some people - especially defensive guys - don't like on the field.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • People
  • Guy
  • Player

• The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Fashion
  • Photography

• Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Job
  • Dislike
  • Prescription

• I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Flower
  • Mouths

• The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Christian

• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
  • World
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

  

  Dogen
  • Enlightenment