Saul David Quotes
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
Quotes to Explore
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
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His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
