Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
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I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.
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We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
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Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
