Gautama Buddha Quotes
Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.
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The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.
