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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.
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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
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I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.
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You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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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.
