"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rick Derringer

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“It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.”
“To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism”
“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.”
“My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”

Source : 'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8
“True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.”
“Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.”

Source : Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications
“There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.”

Source : " Torricelli sees vindication in ethics case" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2002.
“Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”

Source : "The Fantastic Plastic Brain". The Kavli Foundation interview, www.kavlifoundation.org. July 2012.

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