Johannes Tauler Quotes
May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable
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May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
