Greg Boyle Quotes

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

Greg Boyle

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The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Andrew Weil

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Maya Lin

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Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Maya Lin

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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

Jeff Bridges

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A suit is a sign of respect.

Matt Berninger

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I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.

Joseph Brodsky

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Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

Jonathan Anderson

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I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

Chris Tucker

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Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Atom Egoyan

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