Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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You can do one of two things: You can humble yourself or life will humble you. I think it's a lot easier to find a way to humble yourself.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.
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When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.
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Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
