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Related There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really gl... OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying... STEPHEN KING Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're go... CHRIS LARSEN Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m... ROBERT J. SAWYER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g... ED HARRIS That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... 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FRANCINE RIVERS We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living... JOSH FOX What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many hom... GEORGE CAREY That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military b... D. J. COTRONA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON When you're in WWE, it's a part of that contract signing, that grind. You're on-call 24-... REY MYSTERIO As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' Th... MICHAEL JORDAN Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity... JEFF GRUBB This instant is the only time there is. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear. A COURSE IN MIRACLES People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rai... J. G. BALLARD There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real... CHRIS WARE My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I pai... EMILY PROCTER The picture we have is really quite similar to that of a lot of polls that share a growing concern a... DANIEL YANKELOVICH I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed fro... ANN VENEMAN With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality.... ROSE LESLIE To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so mu... ALDIS HODGE The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't ba... GREG GRAFFIN When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's ve... PATTON OSWALT Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We ... KEVIN BACON The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks i... STEVE BUSCEMI We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - ... 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GEENA DAVIS In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge... RACHEL TRUE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear i... DANICA MCKELLAR You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in t... AL MADRIGAL My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analog... KEN LIU The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we... ANTHONY FOXX My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making. MATTHEW VAUGHN There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and ... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 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I think this las... KEVIN GARNETT I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising tea... CHARLIE HADEN I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. E... CLINT EASTWOOD There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me ... AUBREY DE GREY For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gaugi... ERNIE ELS We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's deli... DAVE MATTHEWS In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transp... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found e... HARRY CONNICK, JR. We can believe that we know where the world should go. 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