Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.
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Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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Hush,-for the halo of calmness is spreadingOver my spirit as mild as a dove;Hush,-for the angel of comfort is sheddingOver my body his vial of love;Hush,-for new slumbers are over me stealing,Thus would I court them again and again,Hush,-for my heart is intoxicate,-reelingIn the swift waltz of my beautiful brain!
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
