Walter Scott Quotes
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
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For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
