David Bezmozgis Quotes
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
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There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
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I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces - a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained - in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long, the strange internal shift by which there's no knowing if this is the raod taken or untaken. There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries; moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are no the defeat of something, I don't think.
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Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.
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Having something to look forward to is like having a little bit of magic in your pocket.
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Jesus taught that the age he lived in was controlled by forces of evil but that God would soon intervene to destroy everything and everyone opposed to him. God would then bring in a good, utopian kingdom on earth, where there would be no more pain and suffering. Jesus himself would be the ruler of this kingdom, with his twelve disciples serving under him. And all this was to happen very soon—within his own generation. This
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The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.
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We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
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We murder to dissect.
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
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I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
