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"There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting."
"There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics."
"When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst."
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
"It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine."
"An expert is a damn fool a long way from home."
"Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone."
"We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose."
"You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know."
"Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."
"I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear."
"I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits."
"Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains"
"Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?"
"Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age."
"In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago."
"For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it."
"Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself"
"I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all."
"People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't."
