Alan Watts Quotes
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.
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You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.
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There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
