Barry Long Quotes
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
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He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?” “Blades,” he whispered, “and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.
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Maybe, but if you look at Sunset Boulevard, it's not so far away. Even Citizen Kane is not so far away. So I think that I know it's not so far away.
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
