Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Quotes to Explore
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
