William Walker Atkinson Quotes
We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.
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I've grown to love it, but I'm not like a lot of other people who were always crazy horror fans like Eli Roth or Quentin Tarantino.
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.
