Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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Some suppose these parks to have been reminiscences of a tradition of Eden: at any rate a place of the sort was called a paradise. And so, by adopting the word, Christ appears to indicate that at death we pass, as it were, into the wondrous garden that surrounds the Father’s house, but not into the house itself.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
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As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.
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During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
