Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
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But it will be a new test of his coaching skills. . . . He has to find a way to turn around an underachieving team.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
