Gautama Buddha Quotes
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.
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I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.
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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
