Lewis Thomas Quotes
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.
