Gautama Buddha Quotes
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
Quotes to Explore
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I don't know anything about music.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I do create songs and play the guitar. But my focus is definitely on acting. I think, if there's going to be singing involved in my career, it would probably be in musical theater.
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India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
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When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
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Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
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You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
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The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
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My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.
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But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
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Timing beats speed...precision beats power.
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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
