Ajahn Brahm Quotes
If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
