Yaron Brook Quotes
Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not saving lives.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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There have been beautiful achievements of winning titles with my team-mates.
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God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
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It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
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One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.
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Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
