Hakuin Ekaku Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.
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Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.
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You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you.
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Never have a Mission, my dear child.
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God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
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To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.
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Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
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Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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My five best friends, who were my bridesmaids in my wedding, are still my best friends.
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I was surprised. I can hear the cheers too, but there were some boos. I think it was kind of retribution for what happened in Miami over Christmas. I think the Miami fans were so vocal over Kobe.
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If only you could hear
