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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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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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
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The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.
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Your life is big. Keep reaching.
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Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
