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Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.
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The idea that we can operate in different times is very important for me. And it manifests in daily life or when you meditate. In a way, it's a very scientific thing that you experience for yourself, how time passes, how your body can react to time in different ways.
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Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.
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The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.
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My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchise they're going to build. And guess what? If the first movie doesn't work there is no franchise, so I'm always concentrated on making the best, best possible movie right now.
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.
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A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.
