"Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret."

-- Henepola Gunaratana

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“I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on.”
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
“An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.”
“As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.”
“The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.”
“I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.”
“I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.”
“Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.”

Source : Song: The Story, Album: Tha Hall of Game, 1996

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