Ram Dass Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
