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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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
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Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
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Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
