Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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Trump is not going to win the presidency because he himself is a weak, weak candidate.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
