Gautama Buddha Quotes
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It's best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.
