Hans Kung Quotes
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
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There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
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I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.
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My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.
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People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
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When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
