Adyashanti Quotes

As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.

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• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

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• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

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• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
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• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
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• Actors, after all, dream.

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• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Question
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• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Want

• I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Ideas

• My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Hurt

• I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • True
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• Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

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• My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

  

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  • Music
  • Song
  • Church

• Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

  

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• I have a very nice voice.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Nice

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Up
  • Giving

• The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Action

• I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
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  • Time
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• As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.

  

  Adyashanti
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Moving