Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Jennifer Garner and I are very close.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.
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Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
