Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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I've done a lot of things in my life.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
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There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
