Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
