John Corey Whaley Quotes
I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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It's often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world's most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is that these giants run on top of the world's most important platform: the mobile communications networks.
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We all see through different perceptions, but, certainly, the perception of David Icke has proven to be much more clear than the average man and woman out there.
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When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
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A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.
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I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
