Anthony de Mello Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I just try to be the player I am.
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I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
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I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
