Jack Kornfield Quotes
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I take my work seriously.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
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I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.
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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
