Simon Baker Quotes
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.
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I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.
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With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.
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Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.
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There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.
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Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
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Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
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In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.
