"How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed."

-- Wang Wei

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“I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.”
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.”
“The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.”
“I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.”
“I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.”

Source : "September Cover Girl: Gwen Stefani" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.
“I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.”
“In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.”
“I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.”

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