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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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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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
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I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
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The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.
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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
