"I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand...."

-- Louis Armstrong

“In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period.”
“In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.”
“At the last stages of the journey, thereâ€™s no journey at all.”

Source : Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.110, North Atlantic Books
“How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.”
“A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.”
“I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.”
“Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.”

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