Nomy Arpaly Quotes
Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.
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It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
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Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.
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Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.
