Ajahn Chah Quotes
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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The reason I got into this union was to bring people together.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
