"Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope."
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"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."
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"If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality."
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"It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts."
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"Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict."
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"I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody."
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"The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons."
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"The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest."
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"I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient."
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"When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense."
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"I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing."
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"Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness."
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"As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child."
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"A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness."
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"I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about."
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"In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process."
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"There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me."
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"[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either."
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"When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment."
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"I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things."
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