Brad Warner Quotes
What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I love nature.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
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The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
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Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
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God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
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What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
