Martin Buber Quotes
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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So many, and so many, and such glee.
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If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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There are good '59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don't sustain as well.
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
