John Masefield Quotes
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Respect the burden.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
