Gautama Buddha Quotes
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
