Diogenes Quotes
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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I'm a horrible romantic!
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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
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Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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Republicans will own Congress.
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I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.
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Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.
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Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
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Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
