A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De) Quotes
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.
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The group is enthusiastic about making art, but it's also a good excuse to get together with friends and to enjoy each other's company and to catch up on what's going on with us. Our attitude to making music is carefree and we don't stress about it at all. If music or a particular feeling doesn't come out willingly, we'll force it out.
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I know it's not the right thing to say, but I'm really happy with my body.
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I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the public eye, you have so much exposure through the Internet, and you can receive a lot of comments, and you get kind of immediate gratification, but also immediate response from people that can either be negative or positive. But I'm really thankful for the internet because it's allowed me to connect with people so much more easily.
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
