Arnold H. Glasow Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
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The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
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Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
