Ajahn Brahm Quotes
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . It is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
