Byron Katie Quotes

If I had a prayer, it would be this: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.'

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

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• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

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• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

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• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

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• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

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• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

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• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

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• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

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• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

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• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

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• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

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• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

  

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• Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

  

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• I came from the South with a mother who was hard working, so I love going to work every day.

  

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• Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

  

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• If I had a prayer, it would be this: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.'

  

  Byron Katie
  • God
  • Desire
  • Prayer