Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
Quotes to Explore
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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All the excitement had worn off - all the veneer to the relationship - and the reality was setting in that we were just very different people with very different values at the end of the day. But we had such a history and also a friendship at the beginning of it, that it was very hard to know what to do with that truth.
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I guess I got lucky with my sound.
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Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
