Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Writers are so important.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
