Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
Quotes to Explore
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I don't like controversy.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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Life is love, heartache and strain,
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If we want our children to have a balance between their abilities to earn money and show love, it will help if both their parents model that balance. – page 114.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
