Satish Kumar Quotes
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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A small but brilliant advance made today by someone’s awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it’s valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the whole world of consciousness. So in that sense it’s all working toward this huge audience, and all working toward a better man.
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I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.
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The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.
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If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
