Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I studied Morse code.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
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My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
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For some people the revelation comes too late that life is best kept to the essentials. Some people are given their last rites and that person might say in their last breath, 'I should have celebrated Festivus.'
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
