Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.
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Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.
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I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
