Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
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We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.
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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
