Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
