Duane Michals Quotes
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
Quotes to Explore
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
