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Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.
Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.
I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.
I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.
The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.
My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.
I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.
[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.