Anthony de Mello Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
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Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
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I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
