Martin Heidegger Quotes
Spiritual superiority consists in deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington
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My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.
