Meher Baba Quotes
Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
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When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
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I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
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Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
