Burton Watson Quotes
Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders obeying fate - that's how difficult it is!Burton Watson
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
Taylor Swift -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
I love dressing up.
Bat for Lashes
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith -
At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
Paddy Considine -
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
M. Night Shyamalan -
My father and brothers were in the military.
Garth Brooks -
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
Nancy Gibbs -
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
Ira Glass
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith -
You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
Hillary Clinton -
Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Antonio Porchia -
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis -
Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.
David Zinczenko -
I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
Anne Carson
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I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
Rory Stewart -
I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
Anne Boleyn -
Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders obeying fate - that's how difficult it is!
Burton Watson