Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Quotes to Explore
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
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You live up - or down - to your expectations.
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If things get worse, we do have a plan.
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Pain is the only thing that people will never deny.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
