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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The world map looks smaller than ever before.
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"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.
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For Those Who Were There And Are Not.For Those Who Were There And Are For Him. But Most, For Her.
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I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
