Anthony de Mello Quotes
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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There's no regrets for me.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.
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It's always good to be home.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
