Pythagoras Quotes
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
Quotes to Explore
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
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I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
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There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'
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I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
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Music is half the film.
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When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I'm thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn't imagined.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
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I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a genius, although not always easy to follow. What I learned from him is that the narrative can be tracked through all kinds of scenes, that the strong narrative thread is not always the one that is most obvious. Creating narrative with Malick was a bit like chasing a butterfly through a jungle. This approach to narrative is fun and complicated, something that makes the process of writing constantly interesting to this writer.
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If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
