Ram Dass Quotes
Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
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Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.
