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World Quotes by David Lynch

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David Lynch talks about how a single shift in attitude can turn the whole world into something beautiful. He loves the smell of fresh paint and says that stepping into a film or a dream gives him complete control over a new reality. He also believes that happiness spreads outward, shaping the environment around us.

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Float with me in the world of ether.

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I just like going into strange worlds.

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The world is as you are.

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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

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The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get…

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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…

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When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I…

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Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and…

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Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though…

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A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing…

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All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so…

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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and…

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In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With…

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I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil…

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Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I…

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Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the…

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I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and…

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Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out…

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Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me…

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I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on…

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Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing,…

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They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But…

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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry…

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I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the…

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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,…

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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

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The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is…

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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

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One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do…

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If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect…

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There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the…

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Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful…

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I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse…

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Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what…

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The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the…

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The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood.…

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I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I…

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I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as…

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One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things…

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Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street…

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's…

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time;…

Achievement is its own reward

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

“The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with…

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment…

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.