Ninian Smart Quotes
I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
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As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.
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Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.
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The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
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Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
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We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like movie stars.
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Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.
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I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.
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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
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Great God! This is an awful place.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
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I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
