Walter Hilton Quotes
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
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What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
