William Irwin Thompson Quotes
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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the urgent crowds out the essential.
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I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are able to share this love with our neighbors through acts of kindness and service... When this pure love of Christ - or charity - envelops us, we think, feel, and act more like Heavenly Father and Jesus would think, feel, and act. Our motivation and heartfelt desire are like unto that of the Savior.
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I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
