Leonard Shlain Quotes
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
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Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
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My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.
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When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.
