3 December 2020 Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
3 December 2020 Damon Albarn The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there’s some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there’s a lot of work that’s gone into it, so it can’t all be just a lie.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola It’s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn’t even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
3 December 2020 Richard Linklater Something about Texas I’m not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
3 December 2020 Anna Sewell There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
3 December 2020 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.
3 December 2020 Paul Ricoeur Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
3 December 2020 Nicole Eggert For all the concern about bodies and weight, ‘Baywatch’ has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.
3 December 2020 John Malkovich Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix Whether you think a film will affect society or it’s plain entertainment, it’s all excellent, it’s all noble.
3 December 2020 George Horace Lorimer It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
3 December 2020 Richard Pryor I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
3 December 2020 Edward F. Halifax Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
3 December 2020 Patrick Warburton I have a family to support. And I’m not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
3 December 2020 Peter Jennings Have a sense of humor about life – you will need it. And be courteous.
3 December 2020 Eric Bana The movies people don’t talk about or remember after six months’ time don’t really matter.
