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"A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me."
"People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality."
"Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people."
"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."
"People would do better, if they knew better."
"What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence."
"They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!"
"I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump."
"To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days."
"Life works best when we think of people as people."
"Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence"
"And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking."
"if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!"
"Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message."
"Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick."
"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."
"How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound."
"I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
"It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them."
"God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be."
