Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
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I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
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I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
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The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
