Ramakrishna Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.
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I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
