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• During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

  Ricki Lake

  Important, Surrender, Process

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• The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Dream, Strong, Blessed

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• Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Character, Thinking

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• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Earth, Unions

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• It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

  Russell Brand

  Shoes, Car, Desire

  "Russell Brand On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Book, Thinking, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx.

  Ron Franscell

  Littles, West, Annie

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• ...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.

  Barbara Ess

  Cameras, Use, Earth

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• There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  People, Trying, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Encounters, Entering

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.219, eBookIt.com

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• Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

  Simon Price

  Fun, Creative, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.

  Timothy Olyphant

  People, Scared, Deals

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• Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Essence, Burning, World

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Reality, Blow, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

  Oliver Sacks

  Social, Bonding, Cement

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• It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

  Bob Mould

  Song, Thinking, Views

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• Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know? Potentially in the form of The Godmother from Santa Monica's Bay Cities [Italian Deli &] Bakery. But for a primal "Wow, every sense is on fire!" moment, it would have to be live music.

  Patrick Fabian

  Inspiration, Italian, Fire

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Animal, Choices

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

  Kurt Cobain

  Strong, Opinion, Truthful

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• Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

  Max Brooks

  Emotion, World War Z, Primal Fear

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wrath, Intuition

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• I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

  Densey Clyne

  Nature, Believe, Ocean

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• Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Irritation, Doe, Use

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.914, Simon and Schuster

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• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

  David Foster Wallace

  Basketball, Beautiful, Sports

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