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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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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.
