Anthony de Mello Quotes
The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
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You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser.
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Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
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When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
