Gautama Buddha Quotes
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
Quotes to Explore
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
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I grew up with a very small, select group of friends that I kept my whole life.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
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Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.
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If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.
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If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
