Alan Wolfe famous quotes

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  • Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  • He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

  • my opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.

  • Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

  • Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  • I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

  • The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  • Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

  • The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

  • I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.