Bodhidharma Quotes

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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• I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

  

  Karen Black
  • Work
  • Career
  • Cancer

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • Done
  • Character

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

  

  Benazir Bhutto

• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Music
  • Home
  • Dad

• It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Family
  • House
  • Gym

• Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Crazy

• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • People
  • Life

• I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Waiting

• Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

  

  Donna Karan
  • People
  • Stop

• I love Manchester. I like being here, and certainly I see myself being here for a good while yet.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Good
  • See
  • Here

• Ever since I was really little, I started doing a - I don't know how to put this - mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, 'You can't do that!' But my dad really laughed.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Time

• The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Fashion
  • Photography

• One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Important
  • Success

• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Career
  • Form
  • Comics

• I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Parents

• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  

  David Loy
  • Remember
  • Responsibility
  • Karma

• Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Karma