Bodhidharma Quotes
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
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I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.
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I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
