On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowled...
These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first, Indian later. Punjabi first, Indian later. It has to end. National anthem, national currency, national teams - still, we won't marry our children ou...
This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effo...
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . ...
Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance. No state in...
Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of Judgement it is this crime for which one ...
[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for...
Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others. And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick his...
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
If the Kingdom is being advanced at any level it represents increase
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
