Alda Merini Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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History is not hatred.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
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I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
