Gautama Buddha Quotes
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
Quotes to Explore
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
