Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.
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Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
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A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
