Akong Rinpoche Quotes

The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.

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• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Kids
  • American
  • Play

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Get
  • Painful
  • Through

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• 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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Different
  • Movie
  • End

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Job
  • Hate
  • Attention

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• 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.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Pride

• I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.

  

  Taliesin

• I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Money

• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  

  David Hume

• 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.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Brain

• I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Catholic

• Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • City

• And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Perfect

• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Good
  • Evil

• Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • Girl
  • Organization

• We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Simple
  • Star

• Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Audience

• I actually really love to work out. You need to find what you love.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Find
  • Really

• I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.

  

  Akong Rinpoche
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Principle