Amrit Desai Quotes
Problems are gateways to growth. If you deny or ignore them, you will miss the hidden messages within them. Breathe. Approach everything with softness. Relax. Be here now.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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I am actually a very gentle person.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Problems are gateways to growth. If you deny or ignore them, you will miss the hidden messages within them. Breathe. Approach everything with softness. Relax. Be here now.
