Wendell Berry Quotes
'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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We want you to pay attention.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
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Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
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You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
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One of the commonest perversions of love is to limit it to the private sphere.
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
