S. N. Goenka Quotes
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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Death is a monster; death is horrible.
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I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham.'
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.
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Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.
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We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.
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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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I believe love's grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.
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The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.
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The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
