Gautama Buddha Quotes
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
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Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a mysterious being was up there in the ether somewhere with anthropomorphic qualities of goodness and mercy running the whole show.
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
