Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws.
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Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
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I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.
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The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
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I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.
