Ajahn Chah Quotes
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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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.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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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.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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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.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
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My dad used to tour playing guitar with New Edition.
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My favorite business book of all time is experience.
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I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
