U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.
