Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not saving lives.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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Craft is part of the creative process.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.
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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
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As an athlete, you have to have that feeling that you can beat the odds, come back sooner than expected. Otherwise, the guys who are like, 'What's going to happen?', those guys it takes three months longer. It's better to have the reverse attitude.
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
