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Soul Quotes


"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."


"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."


"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."


"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."


"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."


"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."


"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."


"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."


"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
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"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
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"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."


"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."


"This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans."


"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."


"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."


"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."


"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."


"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."


"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."


"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."


"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
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