Ambrose of Optina Quotes
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
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If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
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I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.
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There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.
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I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
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Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
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I definitely am a ritualistic person.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
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A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
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Those who would retain his services should confine him to subjects better suited…to his sniggering, puerile, defamatory and cruelly limited talents.
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
