Ajahn Chah Quotes
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
Ajahn Chah
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
Aaron Stanford
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
Randy Quaid
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
Dale Earnhardt
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
Canelo Alvarez
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
Laura Mennell
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
Caitlin Moran
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
Barney Ross
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
Randeep Hooda
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
Namie Amuro
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
Haldan Keffer Hartline
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
Pamela Dean
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.
Anthony Kennedy
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I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
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There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
Jane Hamilton
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
Ajahn Chah