Gautama Buddha Quotes
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.
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I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.
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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
