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 spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
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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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In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
