John Burroughs Quotes
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
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The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
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Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
