“When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 180 of 313
“The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.”
“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.”
“We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.”
“The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it’s not because of good advice, it’s not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason—they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.”
“Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.”
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”
“I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.”
“I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.”
“The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.”
“It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.”
“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
“Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.”
“Nothing is unnatural - just untried.”
“Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.”
“Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.”
“Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain”
“What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!”
“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
“Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.”