Xavier Rudd Quotes
Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream with care.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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If I'm played out of position, I'll always give 100%, but everyone knows I would rather play down the middle.
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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
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Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream with care.
