"People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor."

-- Jean Vanier

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“Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.”
“I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
“It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'”
“Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. Â When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.”
“I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.”
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.”

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“Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths”
“Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.”

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