Ayya Khema Quotes
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Quotes to Explore
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
