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Will McIntosh Quotes

I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Will McIntosh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

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Daily Studying Years Month Monk Zen

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Joe Barton

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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Joan Baez

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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Jesse Jackson

Life Mysterious Dimensions

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard

Tree Fall Permanent Books Maple

I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Me Feel Smoke Kind Places Audience

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

John Spratt

Duty Active Without Guard Our Could

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book.

Stacy Schiff

History Book Think Interesting She

My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.

Steven Adams

Work Me Stop Kid Bring Defense

I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow.

Trombone Shorty

Generation Grow Follow Something

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

Tony Greig

Life People Trying Country Want Get

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Mike Colter

Work Progress Man World Interesting

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

Dick Cheney

People Colleagues Reputation Think