"A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry."

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Bill Viola

#Running Quotes #Knives Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.”
“Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.”
“The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.”
“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”

Source : "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
“Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”

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