Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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When, one day, you have made your mark on the world, remember that, in the ultimate analysis, we are all mere temporary custodians of the wealth we generate, whether it be financial, intellectual, or emotional. The best use of all your wealth is to share it with those less fortunate.
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There were subjects we tackled that had never been even discussed, like I had an abortion. Nobody ever talked about that.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.
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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
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You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
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God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
