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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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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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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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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I want to try as many different roles as I can. I want to do everything.
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The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.
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It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
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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.
