Carlos Castaneda Quotes
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
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Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
