Esha Gupta Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.
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It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment.
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If you love animals, please don't eat them.
