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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul Quotes
Some lines just reach further than others.
Several of these treat hardship as necessary soul growth rather than something to avoid entirely. For related reflection on the heart's role, see our Heart quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020