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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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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each generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.
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There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.
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I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
