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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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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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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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
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I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.
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I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
