S. N. Goenka Quotes

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

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• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Game
  • Now
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• He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

  

  Ovid
  • I Love
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• I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Myself
  • See
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• I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Films
  • Critic
  • DIsliked

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Tangled

• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Court
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• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
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• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
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  • Trying

• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

  

  Ice Cube
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• 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Love
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  • Humanity

• Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

  

  Ice T
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  • Hammer

• People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • People
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  • Work

• If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line

  

  Carrie Jones
  • You
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• For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Country
  • Alone

• The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

  

  Danny Porush
  • Truth
  • Relative
  • Distant

• I am ready to help (Uzbekistan) in any way possible and I am already helping, My role today is advice, consulting, and charitable projects

  

  Alisher Usmanov
  • Society
  • Advice
  • Charity

• I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  

  S. N. Goenka