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Image of Laura Benanti
Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.
- Laura Benanti
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Image of Laura Benanti
Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.
- Laura Benanti
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of George Eliot
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
- George Eliot
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Image of Maya Angelou
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Henry Giroux
We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Henry Giroux
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Jeffrey Eugenides
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
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Image of Wayne Dyer
Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Edwin Lefevre
As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
- Edwin Lefevre
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Image of John Dryden
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
- John Dryden
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Image of John Dryden
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
- John Dryden
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Image of Craig Ferguson
Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.
- Craig Ferguson
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Lana Del Rey
Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.
- Lana Del Rey
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Image of Dogen
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
- Dogen
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Image of Dogen
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.
- Dogen
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Image of Claudia Rankine
My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say that. And sometimes it doesn't go well. By this I mean we hit an impasse again. Not that I need to hear exactly what I want to hear, but I need to know I am heard. Those moments make for a better friendship. But I can't let it go. For good or bad.
- Claudia Rankine
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Image of Jill Stein
I wouldn't say it's a done deal yet, by any means. I think there are a lot of people who feel like their lives depend on decisions that are going to be made in this election [2016].
- Jill Stein
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Image of Craig Ferguson
So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.
- Craig Ferguson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Joe Teti
I see smoke, smoke means fire, fire means people, people means we get the hell out of here.
- Joe Teti
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Image of Laura Benanti
I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest thing I've eaten. But I haven't eaten like bugs or... not that I know of.
- Laura Benanti
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Image of Agnes Varda
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
- Agnes Varda
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Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Image of Julian Fellowes
What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
- Julian Fellowes
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Image of Fiona Apple
Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
- Fiona Apple
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Image of Novak Djokovic
Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.
- Novak Djokovic
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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Image of Janet Evanovich
I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean
- Janet Evanovich
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Image of Aasif Mandvi
I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?
- Aasif Mandvi
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Image of Walt Disney
At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.
- Walt Disney
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Image of Walt Disney
I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.
- Walt Disney
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Image of Eve Ensler
It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.
- Eve Ensler
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Image of Henry Ford
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
- Henry Ford
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Image of Henry Ford
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
- Henry Ford
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Epictetus
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'
- Epictetus
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Image of Alexandre Dumas
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
- Alexandre Dumas
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Image of Alexandre Dumas
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
- Alexandre Dumas
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Nora Ephron
Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.
- Nora Ephron
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