St. Vincent Quotes

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• It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

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  God, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

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  Encouragement, Needs, Today

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• The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

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  Poor, Teach

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• I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

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  Iron, Mind, Wish

  Song: Marrow, Album: Actor, 2009

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• It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith

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  Beautiful, Light, Advancement

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• It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

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  Done, Enough, Wells

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• No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

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  Wicked, Matter, Succeed

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• Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

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  Saint, Needs, Helping

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• You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

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  Love You, Giving, Insulting

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• I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

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  Guitar, Playing Guitar

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• However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.

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  Self, Indulge In, Catholic

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• I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

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  Dark, Thinking, Sky

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• All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

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  Trying, Proud, Way

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• It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.

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  Hands, Sick, Relief

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• A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

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  Song, Mean, Emotional

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

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  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

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  Unqualified

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

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  Thinking, People, Parent

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• Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

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  Challenges, Easy, Music Is

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• I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

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  Guitar, Kind, Obsessed

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• I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

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  Technology, Entwined, My Own

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• Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

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  Memories, Guitar, Instinct

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

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  Thinking, Jam, Pearls

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• I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.

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  Spiritual, Stronger, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.

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  Prayer, Real, Feelings

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