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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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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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
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Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.
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What Salman and Sajid Nadiadwala have done for me is priceless. I'll do any film for them without a single question.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.
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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.
