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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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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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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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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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.
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You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
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The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.
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Cleverness: A predisposition to irritate excessively.
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Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
