Wes Nisker Quotes
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
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Reputations stick with you. It's harder to forget about stuff you do in this league, because somebody's always going to bring it up ... Sometimes guys get bad reputations but they don't deserve it.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
