"Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas."

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Source : "Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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“You Weigh How Much You Should Criticize The President Because Hes Black”

Source : "CNN's Don Lemon: 'You Weigh How Much You Should Criticize The President Because He's Black'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 27, 2014.
“I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.”
“If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.”
“It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.”
“Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).”
“Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.”
“No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.”

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