Akong Rinpoche Quotes
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
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I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
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I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
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Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.
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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
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When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
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Have you ever noticed that there are no Maytag user groups? Nobody needs a mutual support group to run a washing machine.
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I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.
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I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
