Joan Halifax Quotes
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
