Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
