Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.
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The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country-Canada, Norway, Britain-has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do-as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
