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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting. -- Christoph Waltz
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. -- M. Night Shyamalan
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. -- H. P. Blavatsky
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. -- Anthony Braxton
Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. -- Miguel Serrano
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars. -- Normandi Ellis
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life. -- Dion Fortune
"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting. -- Paul Rand
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. -- Aleister Crowley
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. -- Charlie Munger
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. -- Keith Richards
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help. -- Julia Cameron
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. -- David Chalmers
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. -- Chuck Jones
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. -- Ella Leya
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. -- Shea Hembrey
I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable. -- Francisco Costa
A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird. -- Bill Hader
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman. -- Dalai Lama
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily. -- Mayim Bialik
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. -- J. D. Salinger
The things I want to make into a film, they're personal, esoteric things, and I don't expect anyone else to like them as much as I do. I generally like my films more than anybody else will. -- Terry Zwigoff
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. -- Saul Williams
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. -- H. P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed. -- Hedi Slimane
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence. -- Ludwig von Mises
I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on. -- Patton Oswalt
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills. -- George Steiner
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. -- Warren Buffett
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them. -- Ned Colletti
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home. -- Cormac McCarthy
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it. -- Kandyse McClure
Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple. -- Will Smith
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion... -- Bill Milkowski
Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. -- Adam Yauch
It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'. -- Denis Dutton
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities and esoteric advice, the book explains legends, the paranormal, and the people who experience the fringe. Have fun, but don't get too close this book may be contagious. -- Jeff Belanger
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut... -- William Ralph Inge
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Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies. -- Virginia Postrel
Abstraction is an esoteric language. -- Eric Fischl
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric. -- Paul Rudd
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones. -- Alain de Botton
When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there. -- James Van Praagh
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff. -- Alfred Rupert Hall
We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric. -- Bryan Kest
I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify. -- Pat Metheny
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. -- William Bernbach
I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts. -- Alanis Morissette
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. -- David Levithan
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task. -- Alyson Noel
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies. -- Jane Fonda
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. -- Thomas de Quincey
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners. -- Dave Gibbons
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings. -- Frederick Lenz
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, -- Chris Christie
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing. -- Steve Lacy
Anyone who's ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it's like to make a collage. There's no esoteric technique. -- Elliott Hundley
An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary. -- David Longstreth
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work. -- Samael Aun Weor
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most. -- Damian Loeb
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. -- Frederick Lenz
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. -- Frederick Lenz
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.The secret isn't that you're not being told.The secret is that you're not able to hear. -- Ram Dass
When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery. -- Kenneth Coutts-Smith
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure. -- Jonathan Lethem
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims. -- Rod Stryker
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle." -- J. D. Salinger

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