Coleman Barks Quotes
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
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I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I take good care of my things. I put everything in a bag. I use soap. I put on a cream after training. People think it's capricious. To each his own. Doesn't mean you're more man or less man, more gay or less gay.
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
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As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
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Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.
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Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
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And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
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We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
