Coleman Barks Quotes
As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
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Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.
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Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.
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I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.
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We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.
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The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.
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As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
