Gautama Buddha Quotes

When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

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• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
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• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
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• I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  

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• I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

  

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• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

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• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

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• It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

  

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• Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

  

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• I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

  

  Maia Mitchell
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• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

  

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• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

  

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• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

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• In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

  

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• We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.

  

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• My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Sky
  • Laugh
  • Realize