If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes
Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
