Dan Millman Quotes
Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.
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A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
