Ernest Holmes Quotes
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.
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'Oh, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman. 'Oh, indeed!' said I.
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I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.
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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
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The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
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'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.'
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The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.
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Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
