Bodhidharma Quotes
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
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I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'
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I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
