Ayya Khema Quotes
From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.
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It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
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I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food
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From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
