Betty Shine Quotes
There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.
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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part. Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.
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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
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There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
