James P. Carse Quotes
In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
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That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
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In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
