Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.
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I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
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No suffering is self-caused.Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?
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Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
