David Deida Quotes
...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.
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...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
