Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes
I would like to die as I have lived disappear among the tundra winds be transformed into birdsong.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
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In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
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If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.
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In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.
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We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, And then we'll take it higher.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.
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...To the mother hubbard girl, whose name seemed to be Janie: ‘It becomes you, it does really, that chunk of filthy butter muslin, but then you’re the sort of girl who could get away with anything, even having one tit bigger than the other.’ He did a comic oenophil act with the bottle of Marsovin...
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I would like to die as I have lived disappear among the tundra winds be transformed into birdsong.
