John Gray Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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My mother is my hero.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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If I like a thing, then I know that millions will like it. My mind and my taste are so common that I’m the best editor.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.
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Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
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I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.
