Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
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Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.
'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.
I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.
I never thought a career as a musician was possible.
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.
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