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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Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.
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I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
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I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
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Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
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The drive for working comes from everyday moments - the thrill of experiencing a young cook succeeding in what they thought was an impossible job, as well as guests being happy. I also love the unknown - discovering new things and trying to make sense of them.
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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.
