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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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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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
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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.
