Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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I have a great office.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
