Jonas Mekas Quotes
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
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US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.
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We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.
