Violent Acts quotes

  • Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.
    -- Cathy Hughes

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  • You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
    -- Jon Shenk

    #Violent Acts #Two #Blame

  • The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.
    -- Pierre Klossowski

    #Violent Acts #Ideas #Violent

  • Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

  • I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

  • I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

  • I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

  • Once you start [filming] you have researchers who are constantly giving you information. Ultimately it isn't about impersonating or trying to be an image of somebody and more trying to capture the spirit and the soul of the person somehow.

  • An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

  • If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

  • My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

  • Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

  • As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.