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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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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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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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
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I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.
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Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
