David Steindl-Rast Quotes
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
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I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
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Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
