Dane Rudhyar Quotes
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small.
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
