"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."

Balance, Being

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"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."

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"The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone."

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"Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know."

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"You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy."

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"Life is a balance between letting go and holding on."

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"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

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"Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others."

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"The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness."

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"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."

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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

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"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."

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"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

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"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

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"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers."

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"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

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"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."

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"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

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"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."

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