Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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Hungary needs Russia.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.
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I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'
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As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
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I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.
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I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
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People are told over and over, 'Don't vote your values. Vote your fears.' But what we got was everything we were afraid of.
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My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.
