Gautama Buddha Quotes
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
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There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
