Bodhidharma Quotes
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
Olivia Cooke -
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
M. H. Abrams -
My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet -
Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
Federica Mogherini -
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Vera Farmiga
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
Barton Gellman -
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski -
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
Ian Frazier -
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
Ira Glass -
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
Barbara Demick -
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
Nancy Roman -
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Carlos Fuentes -
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
Salman Rushdie -
Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
Edmund Spenser
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A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying : try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.
Ferdinand Foch -
As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.
Danielle Fishel -
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.
Elizabeth Janeway -
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
John Burnside -
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Kamisese Mara -
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma