Gautama Buddha Quotes

It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

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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.

  

  Kate Smith
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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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  • Good
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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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  • Girl
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• I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.

  

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• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

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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.

  

  Karen O
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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 find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

  

  Derek Bok
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• I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

  

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• I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over that whole, "That's Elijah Wood - Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings." I was a mega fan of that. I went to the all-day screenings of the director's cut, where you could see the really long versions of all three movies, in one day.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Long
  • Day

• It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Occasion
  • Companions