"There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment."
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"The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?"
"Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness."
"The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it."
"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
"Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me."
"He who is not actively kind is cruel!"
"The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize."
"I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in."
"There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty"
"Music is kind of my everything."
"I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places."
"One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream."
"Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality."
"You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy."
"Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us."
"This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
"If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves."
"It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters."
"We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all."