John Searles Quotes
What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.
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Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
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I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
