David Loy Quotes
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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Art must not serve might.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
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I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
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Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
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But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.
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Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
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Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.
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While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
