A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De) Quotes
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
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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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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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Word of mouth is everything.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
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Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?
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There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
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I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.
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If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
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I was a dogged reporter.
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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
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You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
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I definitely think there's a positive to the world being shaken up right now. Things generally have to get worse before they get better.
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Because he draws so much attention and is so aggressive attacking the basket, I'd like to see him find the open man just a little bit more. He could average 10 assists a game if he made a concerted effort to do that. But the man is only 24 years old.
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Love is very similar to torture or a surgical operation. Even if the two lovers are very much in love and culminating in mutual desires, one of the two will always be fuller than the other. This one is the operator, the butcher; the other, subjected, the victim.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.
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If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
