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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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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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 think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.
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Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
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I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.
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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.
