Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities
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Where there is fear there is aggression.
