Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

Sharon Salzberg

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In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

John Lanchester

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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

Matt Mullenweg

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

John Podhoretz

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Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Michael Shannon

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I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

Lisa Marie Presley

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I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

Josh Groban

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When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

Dick Dale

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When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.

Chris Evans

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That's how I started. I moved to New York City, and I was a makeup artist.

Christian Siriano

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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Boz Scaggs

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I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Bob Kane

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Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

Annalee Newitz

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