Alice Coltrane Quotes
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.
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'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'
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When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.
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I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.
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I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
