Deena Metzger Quotes
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Quotes to Explore
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].
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The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
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It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
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I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
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Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
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I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
