Anthony de Mello Quotes
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I will run against anybody.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
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Silence is complicity. I believe that.
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I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
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The Master is not concerned with what we believe - only with what we see.
