J. L. B. Smith Quotes
Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.
Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.
I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.
If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.
T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.
For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.
I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.