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 think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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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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'Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath.''I never knew baths had veins,' protested Gabrilowitsch.''I never knew his great-grandfather had a ba-' began Falcovsky derisively.
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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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I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.
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I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
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I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.
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So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.