Tara Stiles Quotes

We are all connected. The pain and suffering of others is yours also, on some level, whether you choose to pay attention or not. The reason we can't achieve total bliss is because you're not here solo.

Tara Stiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PainSufferingAttentionYouChoose

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LiveMyselfMeWorldDistanceNow

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

Meghan O'Rourke

GriefSadnessThoughtBetterWorst

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Angie Stone

YouFeelingOthersOrderAccepted

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

ServiceValuePeopleGenerationCore

Paris was a melting pot.

Sonia Rykiel

ParisMelting PotPotMelting

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

Troy Polamalu

IdentityMeHairBecomeAlmostPart

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Roddy McDowall

LiveTimeNew YorkTelevisionNew

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

Mary Ellen Mark

BeautifulRelaxWorryFindStopGo

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Martin Scorsese

MusicBackLineBottomGoingOlder

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Michael Korda

FuturePastAmazingIgnorePredict

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Lukas Foss

CreativityCreativeQuestionsKind

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Dominic Cooper

FamilyEducationGoodHealthPeople

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