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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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 have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!
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Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
