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'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 spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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Art is not meant to change the world.
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If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.
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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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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.
