Ajahn Brahm Quotes

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • American
  • Black

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dreams
  • Paris
  • Everyone

• My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Businessman

• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • I Can
  • Forward
  • Pen

• This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Game
  • Rap
  • Just

• My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Together
  • Know
  • Voice

• Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Doing

• Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Time
  • Best
  • Same

• There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Eye

• I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nature

• The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Jesus
  • Thoughts

• But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Country
  • Tears

• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dark
  • Hair

• There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it-it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it-you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

  

  Ayn Rand

• We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Friends
  • Cheer

• People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

  

  Jill Robinson
  • People
  • World
  • Past

• I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  

  Doris Day
  • Work
  • God
  • Opinion

• Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Fun
  • Philanthropy

• I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

  

  Richard Montanari
  • Catholic
  • Raised
  • Taking

• Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Gym
  • Meditation
  • Develop