Ajahn Chah Quotes
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Pilates is great.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'
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You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
