Clearing Out Quotes

• Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Way, Misery

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.273, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

  Deepak Chopra

  Inner Peace, Brain, Too Much

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• I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Movie, Duration, Stuff

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.

  Bryan Colangelo

  Summer, Running, White

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• If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.

  Anthony Evans

  People, Scary, Littles

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Cameras, Needs

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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