Anthony de Mello Quotes
The Master was allergic to ideologies. 'In a war of ideas,' he said, 'it is people who are the casualties.' Later he elaborated: 'People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.'
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.
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The Master was allergic to ideologies. 'In a war of ideas,' he said, 'it is people who are the casualties.' Later he elaborated: 'People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.'
