Milarepa Quotes
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.
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I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
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One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.
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I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.
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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
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Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
