Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Quotes

Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Christian
  • Going

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Territory
  • Mexico

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Worry
  • Less

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Talent
  • Class

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Thinking
  • Love Is
  • Spirituality

• Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Lies

• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Movie
  • Desire
  • Joy

• Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Lies
  • Stories
  • Agitators

• Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

  

  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  • Lies