"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #People Quotes

“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
“The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.”
“Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.”
“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”

Source : "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "Citizens of the City of Light", (p. 27), 2000.
“I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.”

Source : Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.”
“Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.”

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