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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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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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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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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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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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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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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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
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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.
