Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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The world is me and I am the world.
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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.
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I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.
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Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.
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Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.
