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 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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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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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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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.
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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.
