Bayazid Bastami Quotes
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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My private life stays private.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that's what's going on.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.
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For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
