Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.
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There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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I don't know if we have to win the Big Ten tournament, but that probably depends on who we play and how far we go. We have to worry about Saturday first.
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There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
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There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
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The less you have, the less you have to worry about.
