Ramakrishna Quotes
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.
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No one in life can ever match fiction
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
