Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.
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One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
