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Thomas Merton Quotes

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

Topics

Choices Deepest Real Us Must Our

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

Funny Beautiful People Being Funny

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Life Myself Adventure Feel Life Is A

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Dog Job Push Interesting Run Always

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Shoes You Selling Awkward Economic

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

Solange Knowles

Music Me Independence You Know Way

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

Steven Spielberg

Love Television Movies Different TV

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Good Great People Stand Up Think

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals.

Singing Performance Wolf Back Go

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

Life Parents My Life Lost Young

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

Age Children Parents Think Die You

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Love Together Stand Never Hard Real

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Music Hate Me Seems Promote Using

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