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“You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...”

Knows Running Night Sides Break Divides

Author:Jim Morrison

“Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.”

“When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Happens Natural Break Practice Cases Meditation Awareness Identity Position Illusion Witness Mystical Transcendent

Author:James Redfield

“Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”

Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Helping Hours Break Blood Missing Starting Glasses Productive Desks Antiques Hour Glasses

Author:Dan Brown

“A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Littles Break Rich Cutting Healthy Lust Gods Will Diets Chocolate Mentality Now And Then Dessert Calories Tasty

Book:Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

Source: Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

“If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.”

Ifs War Would Be Fighting Break Break Out

Author:William Joyce

“If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion.”

Ifs Should Opinion Break Hell Rights Citizens Gay Taxes Benefits Married Bills Entitled Gay Marriage American Citizens Bill Of Rights Tax Breaks

Author:Jeanne Phillips

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.”

Giving Heart Country President Break Taxes Gold Wealthy American Politics Tax Breaks Heart Of Gold

Author:Tip O'Neill

“I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.”

Years Steps Break Records Couple Kings Sticks Tempting Bali Break Even Mopeds

Author:Ben Folds

“Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.”

Mother Results Break Invention Advertising Consistently Clutter Break Through Remakes

Author:John Carpenter

“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”

“I've always loved to dance and keep fit but more recently I feel like I cannot keep up any longer and my back starts to hurt. And I get angry and then I have to really learn to forgive myself and go: you know what, you're nearly twice the age of some of the people in this room, give yourself a break.”

People Knows Giving Feels Age Hurt Rooms Break Fit Angry Forgiving Learn To Forgive

Author:Naomi Watts

“If you're not seeing each other anymore because things are so strained, and your only communication is a weekly e-mail, and you're wondering which medium is most appropriate for announcing your desire to break up - guess what, you've already broken up.”

Ifs Desire Wonder Break Seeing Communication Broken Mediums Appropriate Mail Broken Up Announcing

Author:Amber Heard

“Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.”

Thinking Sometimes Happens Running Loses Break Media Picks Digital Print Rays Dirt Scratches New Media

Author:William Friedkin

“You buy a car or any other thing when you see someone else having it. So people will only buy a thing when they see a system in somebody's house and that takes time. The corporate people have taken the poor people for a ride. So that needs to break and the trust needs to be created that this system will actually work.”

People Needs House Poor Break Taken Car Corporate Take Time Poor People

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.”

People Ends Young Break Fame

Author:Piers Morgan

“I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America.”

People Wells America Break Heard Example Universal Males Costumes Mould

Author:Colin Firth

“I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.”

Years Has Beens Two Film Quality Break Bob Songwriters Timelessness Disney Film

Author:Richard Sherman

“We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.”

“You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.”

Knows Able Break Know How

Author:Keira Knightley

“I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.”

Thinking Should Long Done Lasts Left Break Taken Records Should Have Good Things Focused Finished Bubbles Touring

Author:Andrew Bird

“Everybody who works under any system feels confined. It is a natural reaction. You are confined to a certain extent. You are confined if you work in a bank, if you paint. You are confined, in a sense, to your art - the enclosure of your mind. Everybody should break out.”

Ifs Feels Should Mind Art Certain Natural Break Paint Reactions Confined Break Out Enclosure

Author:Frank Capra

“Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.”

People Writing Trying Moments Break Novel Magazines Telling The Truth Essays Beef

Author:Nicholson Baker

“With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.”

Bigs Differences Break

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.”

Joy Song Speak Break Dialogue Torment

Author:Julie Taymor

“I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.”

People Thinking Sometimes Speak Break Comment Make Or Break

Author:Lexi Ainsworth

“I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.”

Thinking Trying Long Principles Break Remains Dare Sexuality Not Afraid Elegance Taboo Taking Pictures Photogenic

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.”

People Want Guy Hurt Break Growing Up Growing Seeing Brother Six Beats Bones Bruises

Author:Kellan Lutz

“My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.”

Doe Matter Eye Break Advice No Matter What Contact Charm Locks Introduction Eye Contact

Author:Chris Cain

“I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.”

Thinking Way Kind Long Two Running Break Son Dad Pressure My Dad Long Runs Two Ways Perfectionist

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.”

Hours Break Drink Rate Screens Tea Keyboards Pints

Author:Charles Stross

“An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.”

Doe Problem Jobs Actors Stars Rooms Break Issues Crazy Rocks Window Actresses Hotel Rock Star Benches Rehab Hotel Rooms

Author:Mila Kunis

“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.”

Way Kind Littles Shows Fall Acting Break Four Habit Picks Cameras Sitcom Bad Habits

Author:Mila Kunis

“This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.”

People Country Young Energy Break Creative Usa Hopeful Hammers Something Better Exploding Creative Energy

Author:Edward Norton

“I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down.”

People Want Whole Hate Pay Cities Break Drinking Pushing Buttons Shipping Espresso

Author:Josh Smith

“Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.”

People Way Feels Ideas Prayer Break Issues Successful Teaching Holy Adults Ethical Lenses Inner Life Intersections Global Issues

Author:Erica Brown

“In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.”

Reality Term Natural Break Environment Crazy Tvs Drama Strive Make Sense Cinema Acceptable Naturalism Natural Environment

Author:Takashi Miike

“I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But I don't believe that it's a solid wall. I'm going through it. Nothing's stopping me. Yes, there are these preconceived notions; yes, we have challenges. Let's accept them, let's not be afraid of them, let's break through them.”

Knows Believe I Believe Challenges Accepting Break Theory Wall Notion Don't Believe Glasses Limitation Stopping Ceilings Break Through Preconceived Notions Glass Ceiling

Author:Debbi Fields

“Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"”

Thinking Way Mean Littles Different Bits Parent Realizing Natural Break Little Bit Like Me Our Family Things To Do Natural Things

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.”

Thinking Writing Wells Book Reading Bits Break Five Pieces Four Reader Brilliant Insane Bits And Pieces

Author:Markus Zusak

“The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.”

Turns Decision Break Five Planning Meals Dishes Make Or Break

Author:Ina Garten

“I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].”

Writing Song Found Bits Break Hungry

Author:Damien Rice

“Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.”

People Kind Actors Waiting Rooms Acting Break Cutting Directors Direct Categories Breaking Down Acting In Movies

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.”

Ifs Trying Matter Play Games Rooms Break Doors Harder Shoulders Pedigree

Author:Audra McDonald

“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”

Source: Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.”

Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?”

Ifs Able Wonder Break Twenties Afterlife

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“Every wave is new until it breaks.”

Break Wave

Author:Neil Young

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