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“Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.”

Body Action Form Sky Rain Died Clouds Karma Snow Ice Continuation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.”

People Firsts Wells War Shows Actors Stars Five Car Members Understood First Time Rain Casts Willingness Popularity Invited Boston Skeptical November Parades Antiques Cast Members

Author:John Ratzenberger

“Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.”

“In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.”

Want Needs Kind Mean Able Found Grows Water Loses Land Special Protect Rain Rivers Plant Coffee Streams Soil Kenya Erosion Soil Erosion

Author:Wangari Maathai

“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.”

Needs Children Done Care Able School Mother Grows Activity Rain Rivers Our Children Medicine Coffee Income Forests Burning Your Children Hospitals Protected Charcoal Logging Good Coffee

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.”

“Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"”

People Ifs Giving Sometimes Might Asks Easy Rain Excuse Damn Damn You Bumpy Roads

Author:Miles Davis

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.”

Giving Culture Quality Rain Exceptional

Author:Michael Hastings

“I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.”

Long Moments Running Mother Speak Son Rain Poetry Is Joyful Oblivious

Author:Simin Behbahani

“What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say "no," which is something girls - we're not always good at saying "no." We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, "Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain." It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do, and what kind of work I wanted to do.”

World Kind Moments Age Past Girl Hours Forget Nice Rain Okay Fantastic Being Nice Modeling

Author:Yara Shahidi

“Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.”

Creative Rain Exciting Be Creative

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were both so generous to me on the Rain Man set. I remember Tom was in the trailer when I said to the makeup guy, "You know, I would really like to not wear any makeup. I just have this feeling that she wouldn't have any." And Tom said, "Yeah, that's cool!"”

Men Feelings Remember Guy Rain Generous Makeup Cruise

Author:Beth Grant

“My father died right after the movie Rain Man was released. He got to see it, then literally the day before he died, he asked Mama to take him to see it one more time - because he knew he was declining. Tom's assistant at the time told him my father died, and he wrote me a very personal note. I haven't seen him since, but you can't say anything bad about Tom Cruise to me, because anybody who takes the time to do that is very special.”

Men Father Special Rain Say Anything Cruise Father Died My Father Died

Author:Beth Grant

“At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.”

Men Long Healthy Rain

Author:Beth Grant

“People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, "Oh, climate change doesn't exist." Then they switched to "Well, it exists, but it's not man-made," to "Well, I'm going to address the issue." Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, "Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time." They can't get away from it.”

People Long Real Home Waiting Interest Republican Rain Vote Climate Change Get Away Flood

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”

World Reality Nature Change Travel Rain Yesterday Sunshine Sneer Happy Sunshine

Book:Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back then, they didn't know in the test audience whether it's okay to laugh or not laugh, because it's a film that's done in a way where, "Well, maybe I'm not supposed to laugh." At the end of the film, Dustin Hoffman gets on the train and doesn't even acknowledge his brother. Not even a glance, nothing. That's why the studio said, "Can't you just have him look at Tom Cruise at the end of the film?"”

Men Done Film Audience Laughing Brother Rain Okay Train Acknowledge Autism Cruise

Author:Barry Levinson

“I tend to shoot really quick so you don't get the problems you might get on a traditional film where you shoot one way, then another, and it's pissing down with rain and they won't cut together. We shoot so fast we can incorporate the weather into it. The worst weather we had was when they were in the caravan up the mountain and there was no cover. One man's weather is another man's production value. To create the sleet would cost a fortune but we got it for free so we'll just have to go with it.”

Problem Together Film Values Cutting Worst Mountain Rain

Author:Ben Wheatley

“The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.”

Real Use Rain Irony

Author:Greg Kinnear

“Surfing and music have always been two completely separate things in my life, and a lot of people, especially in the UK, don't really get surfing very much. They think it's the Californian dream. They're like, "Oh, so you're a surfer and you're this and that," and it's like, I go surfing because I like the outdoors. In England it's freezing cold, and it's usually dark and raining and it's the middle of winter, and you do it because it's invigorating. It's like going on a walk in some remote place on the planet. It's really - it's not very glamorous.”

People Thinking Dream Dark Cold Rain Winter Surfing Glamorous

Author:Ben Howard

“This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand, storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.”

Rain Plant Stranger Storm Gentle Chemistry

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel in, whatever it is, the initial response from the public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, because basically we're kind of raining on folks' parades. As time goes on, the Muhammad Ali's and all the people that raised those issues, they then become heroes later when people reflect on the courage they showed and the issues that they raised. And Donald Trump is in danger of being a more and more reviled figure as the years go on.”

People Kind Danger Hero Rain Negative Response Muhammad

Author:Van Jones

“When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.”

Ifs Faces Winning Felt Sports Chance Morning Wind Rain Excellent My Time Sunday Trusted Brilliant Ideas Sunday Morning Wind And Rain

Author:Tom Kite

“Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro." As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.”

Trying Different Character Couple Rain Paint Surround De Niro

Author:Gary Oldman

“The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one's eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.”

Different Country Rain Importance Settling Eyesight

Author:Akhil Sharma

“As a human being living one's life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.”

Expectations Rain

Author:Akhil Sharma

“Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look like religion in other animals, like chimps doing rain dances, and that sort of thing. Actually, I say that, but there's that and not much else.”

Animal Rain

Author:Hal Whitehead

“My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!”

Giving Philosophy Moments Past Remember Joy Enjoy Water Pleasure Grace Balance Drink Rain Empty Stranger Settling Little Things Remembering The Past Little Things In Life

Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“That solo on "Lord, I'm Discouraged" in terms of notes it isn't anything like it, but in terms of aesthetic, it's direct rip-off from the "November Rain" solo. In fact, when I did it, I imagined myself walking out of a church, walking out onto a cliff and doing a guitar solo. Slash has always been one of my favorites because the guy uses a lot of melody in his solos.”

Guy Term Church Lord Walking Rain Direct Melody Aesthetic Discouraged November

Author:Tad Kubler

“In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.”

Ifs Soul Light Literature Rain Clouds London Weather My Soul Cloudy

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”

“Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.”

Feels Children Asks Literature Relationship Rain Your Children Doing You Rainy Rainy Day

Book:Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies

Source: Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies

“Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.”

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

Thinking Nice Food Judging Rain Cooking Fishes Culinary Wet

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'”

States Fall Rain Careless Appearing Lukewarm

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.”

Cutting Example Rain Climate Spread Forests Desert Tropical Rainfall

Author:James Lovelock

“Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.”

Hard Beautiful Sun Cold Lovers Travel Smart Built Rain Deny Relate Attractive Get Away Arrogant Bats Glamorous Rainy Sydney Magnetic Eyelids

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.”

Humor Funny Hate Energy Environment Rain I Hate Leaving Climate Change London Weather Flood Drought Londoners Good Weather

Author:Groucho Marx

“A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.”

Song Music Lovers Kissing Angel Rain Kiss Me Kissing Him Kissing You Love Kiss Love Kissing Kissing Her Kissing And Love Country Love Song Best Kiss Music And Lyrics

Author:Dave Matthews

“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.”

Bits Gay Rain Lgbt Homosexuality Homosexual Pointless Orientation Gay Rights Being Gay Gay Pride Disapproval Disapproving Lgbt Pride

Author:Francis Maude

“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”

Ifs Rain Farmers Spoil Crops Picnics Inspirational Rain

Author:Tom Barrett

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

Opportunity Wind Travel Rain Miles Hiking Tents Prevailing Rainy Day Great Travel Camping Raindrops Hiker Raining Day Rainstorms Rainy Weather Hiking Outdoors Rains Beauty

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.”

Knows Use Language Sky Identity Speech Rain Ghost Ireland English Language Rainy Day Ireland And The Irish Gaelic

Author:John McGahern

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”

“For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.”

People House Seeing Streets Rain Skins Folly Wet Remedy Rainy Day Swarms

Book:Utopia

Source: Utopia

“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”

Important Literature Rain Criticism Critics Reviews Bad Reviews Patagonia

Author:Iris Murdoch

“What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?”

Ifs Years Long Country Sometimes Matter Wonder Sun Week Flower Rain Winter Far Away Blooming Flower Chilly

Author:Anna Neagle

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