Anthony de Mello Quotes
The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
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I shall here present the view that numbers, even whole numbers, are words, parts of speech, and that mathematics is their grammar. Numbers were therefore invented by people in the same sense that language, both written and spoken, was invented. Grammar is also an invention. Words and numbers have no existence separate from the people who use them. Knowledge of mathematics is transmitted from one generation to another, and it changes in the same slow way that language changes. Continuity is provided by the process of oral or written transmission.
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The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
