Bill Porter Quotes
When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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It's amazing - 2015 has been a fantastic year for me because of the records I've broken and the wins I've had.
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'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
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Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
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When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.
