Ajahn Chah Quotes
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.Ajahn Chah
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor Swift -
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
Kate Beckinsale -
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi -
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
Patrice Leconte -
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
Patricia Schroeder -
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
Camila Alves -
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. Packer -
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis -
I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
Faith Hill -
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
Harold E. Varmus -
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
Val Kilmer
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens -
For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
Zooey Deschanel -
You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.
Eddie Charles Jones -
We used music in the film to create an environment. It made it feel like we were telling our story with a little extra -- a little extra soul.
Cameron Crowe -
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.
Irwin Edman -
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.
Ellie Goulding -
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.
Ajahn Chah