Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.
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If I like a thing, then I know that millions will like it. My mind and my taste are so common that I’m the best editor.
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Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?
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Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
