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 really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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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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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.
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I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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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.
