Ajahn Chah Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I never left doo wop.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
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The commentariat denounced Trump’s immigration policies, then quickly returned to saying he had no policies at all. It was as if JFK had said we were going to the moon and the entire media shouted back, 'Okay, but what’s your policy on going to the moon.'
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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
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What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.
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I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.
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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me
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Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
