Josh Pais Quotes
When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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Iniurium est de poeta male sobrio lectorem abstemium iudicare.
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Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
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I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
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I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
