"I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way."

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Source : "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

Ben Stiller

#Taken Quotes #Desire Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.”
“There is no ONE right way, no ONE sure-fire path to success, and it is usually the path itself that should be most cherished.”
“Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.”
“I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.”
“What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.”
“Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.”

Source : Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.52, Pariyatti Publishing
“Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.”
“Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.”

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