Alive Quotes - Page 34

• I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"

  Steve Trotter

  Jesus, Sunday, Worry

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• If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Wrestling, Hands

  Source: genius.com

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• The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.

  Cornel West

  Reading, Sitting, Way

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• It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.

  Cornel West

  New York, Reading, Home

  Source: genius.com

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• It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's on there forever. I think that's the way kids see the world today. They actually speak to each other using retro concepts now because the internet culture has kept that memory alive, constantly.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Memories, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

  John Lennon

  Voice, People, Ballet

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• At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

  Eric Kripke

  Real, People, The End Of The Day

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

  Clive Owen

  Thinking

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• You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

  Clive Owen

  Couple, Kind, Ready

  Source: collider.com

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• Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

  Willard F. Harley

  Emotional, Feelings, Important

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• Computer viruses are alive.

  Stephen Hawking

  Viruses, Computer, Computer Viruses

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• Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

  Andrew Weil

  Profound, Vision, Psychedelic

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• Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Perfect, Enlightenment, Limits

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• For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

  Frances Farmer

  Being Alone, Cells, Years

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• I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

  Russell Means

  Writing, Arrogant, About Yourself

  "HERB CAEN -- Caennecting the Dots" by Herb Caen, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 1996.

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• While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.

  Charles J. Givens

  Irs, Made

  Charles J. Givens (1995). “More Wealth Without Risk”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

  Alice Walker

  Struggle, Vivid, Might

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

  Audre Lorde

  Liars, Heroism, Buried

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.348, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Artistic Life, Would Be

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• The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

  Pat Martino

  Grateful, What Matters, Guitar

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• This is really a crazy idea, you know. It probably won't work, but that will be interesting, too. You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive. Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Crazy, Ideas, Interesting

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• Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, One Day, Five Senses

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Islands, Leaving

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• I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Age, Wells

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• Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that in our song worship, we have to be spiritually alive (dead people don't sing), spiritually assisted (through the enabling of the Holy Spirit), and spiritually active (committed to daily walking with the Lord).

  Keith Getty

  Song, People, Singing

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