Vernon Howard Quotes
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.
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Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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I am delighted to invest in JetSynthesys and join the Board as Non-Executive Chairman. JetSynthesys aims to become the platform of choice for digital content and experience. We have invested extensively in backend technology infrastructure that is best in class in the world.
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
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I don't really have any apps!
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
