Angeles Arrien Quotes
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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I'm always honest.
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Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.
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It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
