Lisa Lopes (Left Eye) Quotes
I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
Quotes to Explore
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My father is an amazing person.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.
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She said we got to get his name off the title.
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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
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When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.
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Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
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I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
