Anthony de Mello Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
