Anagarika Govinda Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they’ll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don’t change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'
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And, stretching in languid warmth, she contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
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From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.
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It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.
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To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
