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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The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.
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I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
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Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.
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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.
