Ram Dass Quotes
His Bhagwan Dass' teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within … that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation … as if I knew it all already.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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The world is a penal institution.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
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I'm a big fan of 'Star Wars.' Some of the most iconic characters of 'Star Wars,' we didn't see their faces but to this day you can say Jabba the Hutt or Darth Vader and people know what you mean around the world.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
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I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.
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My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
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I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
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Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.
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Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
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I never had a Plan B.
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I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.
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Speak but one word to me.
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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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I may be a real bad boy, but baby, I'm a real good man.
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His Bhagwan Dass' teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within … that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation … as if I knew it all already.
