Ramana Maharshi Quotes
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
