Gautama Buddha Quotes
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
Quotes to Explore
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
