Satish Kumar Quotes
We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
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Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
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It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
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Knowledge is more important than space.
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It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.
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We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
