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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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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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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Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
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Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
