Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
