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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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 think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
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I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.
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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.
