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Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands. -- Lisa Kleypas
The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart -- James Taylor
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up. -- Billy Joel
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door. -- Arnaud Desjardins
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked. -- Rob Bell
I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud. -- Kanye West
When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities. -- Evelyn Underhill
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love. -- Yann Martel
Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people. -- Bill Richardson
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. -- Alice Cooper
What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow? -- Debbie Ford
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn. -- Shane Koyczan
The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels. -- Joe Biden
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace. -- Jacques Derrida
I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve. -- Nikki Sixx
If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out. -- Dalai Lama
The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems. -- Frederick Lenz
People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them. -- Neil Sheehan
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. -- Nikola Tesla
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The Internet is a whole new world opening up. -- Kenneth Edmonds
Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. -- Betty Hill
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. -- John Fahey
I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. -- Todd Barry
We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop. -- Peter Criss
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We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. -- Buzz Aldrin
When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that. -- Renee Fleming
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up. -- Kevin James
Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying. -- Kevin Hart
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke. -- Rachel Perry
If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up. -- David Frost
I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution. -- Dennis Kucinich
I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors. -- L.A. Reid
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night. -- Yanni
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box. -- Jennifer Aniston
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning. -- Martin Scorsese
Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that. -- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
The Internet is a whole new world opening up. -- Kenneth Edmonds
Everyone can experience loving himself and opening up to awareness. -- James Van Praagh
Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again. -- Jon Stewart
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. -- Muriel Barbery
Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling -- Deborah
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up. -- Russell Simmons
Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me. -- Michael Chiarello
When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up. -- Eva Mendes
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope -- Andrew Flintoff
There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. -- Joko Beck
I sit before flowers "¨hoping they will train me in the art "¨of opening up -- Shane Koyczan
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty. -- Albert Einstein
Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. -- e. e. cummings
Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world. -- Carlos Curbelo
Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for. -- Richelle Mead
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands. -- Girl Talk
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go. -- Marion Barry
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. -- Kami Garcia
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing. -- Kushal Pal Singh
Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. -- Simone Elkeles
The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over. -- Alyssa Milano
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life. -- Hillary Clinton
I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be. -- Dar Williams
Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself. -- Hillary Clinton
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. -- Hanna Rosin
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. -- Mary Pope Osborne
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. -- Ma Jian
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end. -- Tony Benn
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do. -- Anthony Anderson
Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage. -- Ivy Meeropol
Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions. -- Hu Jintao
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. -- George Lucas
Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. -- Gene Simmons
Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors. -- Justin Chon
Maybe she'd go for a walk, just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle? -- Marilyn Monroe
A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up! -- Chino Moreno
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors. -- Gaspar Noe
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing. -- Condoleezza Rice
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. -- John Leguizamo
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up. -- Paul Auster
Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?" -- Colin Jost
Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity? -- Lionel Suggs
Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up. -- George W. Bush
When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy? -- Nancy Lublin
The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. -- Jean-François Beauchemin
If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently -- Aaron Scheidies
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. -- Jesse Jackson
Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else. -- Joshua Malina
Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you. -- Linwood Barclay
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. -- Douglas Coupland
I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting. -- Sigourney Weaver
The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting. -- Robert Altman
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore. -- Billy Corgan
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl. -- Bruce Cockburn
Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made. -- Robert Biswas-Diener
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. -- Elliot Richardson
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in. -- Nora Roberts
You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles. -- Future
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Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up. -- Charles A. Reich
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. -- Andrei Sakharov
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe. -- Joan Jett
It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. -- Dawn Fraser
Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality. -- Alan Greenspan
I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes. -- Candice Olson
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. -- Milton Friedman
I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should. -- Anupam Kher
Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by. -- Billy Joel
I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set. -- Jenny Lewis
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I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them. -- Andrea Arnold
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism. -- Hu Jintao
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism. -- Hu Jintao

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