Johannes Tauler Quotes
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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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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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.
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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
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I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
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It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.
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One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.
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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
