Elia Suleiman Quotes
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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Kant ... stated that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith,' but all he had 'denied' was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
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I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
