Brian Oldfield Quotes
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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It is incomprehensible grace to be a prodigal who is held by God again.
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I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
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I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.
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I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.
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When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.
