Gautama Buddha Quotes
Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργονμετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,σφετέρᾳ δ' εἰκότα γέννᾳ.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
