Gautama Buddha Quotes
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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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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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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I love apple juice.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
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Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.
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It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
