Ismail Merchant Quotes
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.
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The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
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I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
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I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
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This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
