William Walker Atkinson Quotes
The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
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Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
