Rene Daumal Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
Yossi Sarid -
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
Walter Ulbricht -
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
Young Buck -
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
Abbas Kiarostami -
It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
Carles Puigdemont
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie -
I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
Randolph Bourne -
I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
Philip Roth -
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi Murakami
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I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
Charles Fourier -
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
C. S. Lewis -
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
Erica Jong -
But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
Colin Meloy -
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
Rene Daumal