Gautama Buddha Quotes
Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.
