Barnet Bain Quotes
Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our attitudes, our feelings. All of these are, for the most part, unconscious. Mindfulness allows us to watch these thoughts and choices and decisions without being triggered and having to take action and give meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I dress for men.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
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I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
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Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our attitudes, our feelings. All of these are, for the most part, unconscious. Mindfulness allows us to watch these thoughts and choices and decisions without being triggered and having to take action and give meaning.
