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"What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you."
"I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy."
"We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness."
"Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us."
"The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time."
"Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature."
"The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus."
"The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker."
"The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality."
"If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you."
"There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas."
"There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate."
"My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood."
"Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools."
"I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all."
"I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt."
"I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings."
"What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about."
"Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it."
"There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work."
