Coleman Barks Quotes
Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’
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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.
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The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Bitterness kills the soul.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.
