Meher Baba Quotes
It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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There's no regrets for me.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I love playing odd roles.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
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Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.
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I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.
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It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
