Bede Griffiths Quotes
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I was very rebellious.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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And yet it moves.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
