Ajahn Chah Quotes
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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What matters most is the win.
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I do not like violence.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.
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All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
