Austin Dacey Quotes
Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
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TNA is great about going out of their way to interact with the fans.
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When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
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Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?
