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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It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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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.
