Mahavira Quotes

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

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• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
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• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
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• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Watch
  • Swim

• It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Quality
  • Win
  • Environmental

• That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

  

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  • Men
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• The Melvins are grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Grunge

• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
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• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Said
  • Say
  • Vote

• I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Week

• You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Feelings

• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Control
  • Worry
  • Stress

• I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Control
  • Cancer

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating