Gautama Buddha Quotes
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
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It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
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I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.
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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go to a Barnes & Noble cafe or to the library on 5th and 42nd. In the afternoons, I do research, reading, editing, and play with the kids.
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The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
