Stuart Wilde Quotes
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
Quotes to Explore
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Certainly we were disappointed. But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - 'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
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It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
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I truly believe my haters are my motivators.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
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I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
