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• I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Jazz

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I was just so ecstatic that I was working, and then as it went on, you know, I started to really appreciate that it ["Freaks and Geeks"] was good and that we were doing something a little different and that, you know, everyone was really cool to work with and that it was really talented group of people, and it was just when I was realizing that, that it got canceled.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.

  Zendaya

  Dream, Here I Am, Ravens

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Artist, Boys, Silver Platter

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• Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Essence, Forever

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also just get so ecstatic hearing and feeling the noise in general and it still makes me giggle inside playing certain sounds. One of the downsides is that in order to produce certain sounds, I'm totally using my arms the wrong way and sometimes that worries me. But then that physical strain puts me in a different state of mind to bring out different dimensions in the music, I suppose.

  Okkyung Lee

  Order, Worry, Feelings

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

  Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

  God, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• The Saudis are so happy. People don't understand, the Saudi Arabian government - kingdom - hates Iran. They're scared to death of Iran. That's Shi'a versus Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Persians. They're not Arabs. So it's a double whammy. There is no love lost, and the Saudis have been petrified over Barack Obama's peace dance and nuclear dealings with the nation of Iran. They are ecstatic to have Donald Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Lost Love, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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• You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Thinking

  "Surfing the Universe". Interview with Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• When panting sighs the bosom fill,
  And hands by chance united thrill
  At once with one delicious pain
  The pulses and the nerves of twain;
  When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
  Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
  Ecstatic conscious unison, -
  The sure beginnings, say, be these
  Prelusive to the strain of love
  Which angels sing in heaven above?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Pain, Angel, Eye

  "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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• The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.

  Ram Swarup

  Men, Brotherhood, Vision

  "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.

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• He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.

  Sarada Devi

  Grace, Ecstatic Love, Praying

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda (p. 363), August 31, 2004.

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• Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him.

  Sarada Devi

  Realization, Ecstatic Love

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda (p. 290), August 31, 2004.

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• I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

  Juliana Hatfield

  Flower, Sleep, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

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• When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ecstatic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Mean, Reality

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• I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.

  Sienna Guillory

  Book, Taken, Reading

  "My Life in Travel" by Sophie Lam, www.independent.co.uk. May 27, 2005.

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• There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.

  Mark Joyner

  Substitutes, Consumers

  Mark Joyner (2010). “The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less”, p.155, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm 52, which means I don't really... I was never a person who celebrated birthdays to begin with. At this stage, it's certainly something that someone who made a big deal out of their birthdays in their 20s and 30s kind of hangs that up. Not because you're sad to be getting older. I'm thrilled to be getting older. I have so many friends who died when they were 25 and would be ecstatic to be here with me turning 50. It's a thrill and a privilege to still be alive.

  Dan Savage

  Mean, Getting Older, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

  Timothy Leary

  Prayer, Communication, Computer

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.70, Ronin Publishing

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• Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

  Basil Hume

  Death, Love You, Long

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• Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Joy

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• In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Use

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• Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

  Scott Hastie

  Risk, Delicious

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• Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  "Bread For the Journey". Book by Henri J. M. Nouwen, 1996.

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