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.

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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.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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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.'
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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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.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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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.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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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.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
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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.