Satish Kumar Quotes
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.
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I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
