Nachman of Breslov Quotes

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Nachman of Breslov

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• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

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• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

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• It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

  

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• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

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• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  

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• I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

  

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• A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

  

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• Given the shrinking populations inside Europe and the waves of immigrants rolling in from Africa and the Middle and Near East, an Islamic Europe seems to be in the cards before the end of the century.

  

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• Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

  

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• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.

  

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• Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.

  

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• Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

  

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• Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

  

  Nachman of Breslov