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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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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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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Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.
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Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
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I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.
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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.
