Byron Katie Quotes
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Moderation is the secret of survival.
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
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Don't be afraid, just play the music.
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What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?
