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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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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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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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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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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I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
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Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.
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Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.
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I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.
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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.
