Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Quotes
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
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Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.
