Alice Coltrane Quotes
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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A woman who is loved always has success.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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'Anderson' is what I've been called since I was a kid; my mom is about the only person who calls me 'Mike.'
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The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
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The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
