Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
