"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."

-- Benjamin Jowett

#Peace Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Unique Quotes

“When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.”
“God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.”
“People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.”
“My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.”

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.64, Open Road Media
“Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press
“I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.”
“I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.”

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