Ajahn Amaro Quotes
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
