Arnold Mindell Quotes
Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
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A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.
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All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.
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Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.
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Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.
