Akong Rinpoche Quotes
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?
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I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
