William Jones Quotes
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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Pair up in threes.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.
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Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
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We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.
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There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
