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.
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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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.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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They made me look like I was 2 years old.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.
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I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
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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.
