Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.
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Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
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I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.
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Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
