M. Scott Peck Quotes
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
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Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.
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Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
