Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Writers are so important.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.
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If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!
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Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
