Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West -
I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
Vincent Cassel -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was so ashamed of who I was.
Lady Gaga -
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra -
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Karl Urban
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
Warren Giles -
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco -
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
Zosia Mamet -
Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
Laura Moser -
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
Dan Savage -
When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
J. C. Ryle
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
Warren Farrell -
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
Alfred Brendel -
There is no revolution like the Communist revolution. You simply burn all the books, kill all of the thinking people and use the poor proletariat to create a very simple benchmark to gauge social change.
Ai Weiwei -
If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.
Albert Camus -
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
Matt Taibbi -
Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my entire life.
Kelly Marie Tran
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill -
A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.
Walker Percy -
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
William Styron -
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
Jerry Jeff Walker -
Conquer a liar with truth.
Gautama Buddha