B. Alan Wallace Quotes
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
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It's really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that's the stuff that keeps you going.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
