Terence Blacker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.
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It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.
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For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
-- Terence Blacker
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Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.
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I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.
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We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.
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The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time
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