Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
