Pema Chodron Quotes
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.
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They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama; created with Obama. But I love predicting because you know, ultimately, you need somebody with vision.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
