Anthony de Mello Quotes
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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The most important thing for me is the work, my job, and then to go to my house to be satisfied with my work.
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
