Ken Wilber Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
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I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
