S. N. Goenka Quotes
If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.
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I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.
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Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
