Bill Porter Quotes
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
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Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
