Anthony de Mello Quotes
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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I'm very grateful for the way that I feel when I play. I feel very powerful, I feel fast, I feel unstoppable, and that's because of my body.
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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
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We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.
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I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
