Gautama Buddha Quotes
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I would like to direct.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
