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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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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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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Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.
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To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
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In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
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I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.
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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.
