David Fontana Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
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I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
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Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.
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Catholicism is a religion of idols.
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I close my eyes halfway just as when I conceive paintings and I see the houses 'Dunkelbunt' -glowing in pure strong and deep colours a little sad like seem on a rainy day instead of ugly cream colour and green meadows on all roofs instead of corrugated iron. p.6
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The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.
