Narayanananda Swami Quotes

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami

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• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

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• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

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• I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

  

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• Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

  

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• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

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• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

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• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

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• I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

  

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• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

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• The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

  

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• When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

  

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• In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  

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• But-criminals are remote from you-as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.

  

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• There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

  

  Narayanananda Swami
  • World
  • Fools
  • Persists