Gary Snyder Quotes
I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
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We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
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Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.
