David Abram Quotes
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.
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The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.
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Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
