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 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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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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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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To say anything was useless, to say nothing was cowardly. 'I think it a bad idea, Sir.'
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Since this art surpasses all human subtelty and the perspecuity of mortal talent and is truly a celestial gift and a very clear test of the capacity of man's minds, whoever applies himself to it will believe that there is nothing that he cannot understand.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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.
