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“If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.”
“In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.”
“I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!”, p.21, Multnomah
“If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.”
“The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda - Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga - upon the earth.”
“That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.”
“I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.”

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