I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
DAVID LYNCHI don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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