Gautama Buddha Quotes
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
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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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I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.
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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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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
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There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
