Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
