Garchen Rinpoche Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.
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Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.
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At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.
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The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
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If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
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If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.
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If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.
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I'm such a good sleeper that I can have tea any time of day, and I will have no problem taking a nap. I'm a professional napper.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
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Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.
