Gautama Buddha Quotes
When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
Quotes to Explore
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
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'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'
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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
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Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
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When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
