Angelus Silesius Quotes
Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.
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At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire.
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The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
