Gautama Buddha Quotes
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
