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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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.
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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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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
