Anthony de Mello Quotes
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
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Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
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Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.
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Of course I want that gold belt. Don’t tell me that gold belt sitting up here right now on this table would not look great along side this ivory, elephant-trunk suit that I have got on me right now. It would look perfect.
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I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.
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When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.
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I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go 'Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX.' And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
