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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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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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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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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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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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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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 still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
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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.
