Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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The world is always terrible.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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Having faith in the future starts with building confidence in one's self, being honest with one's self, and having the courage to live one's life, not perfectly, but authentically. Each one of us matters. Our choices matter. Our thoughts, words and deeds matter. Live each day with joy, and embrace the opportunities that will enable you and your community to grow and blossom.
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It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.
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Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
