Gautama Buddha Quotes
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Gautama Buddha
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
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I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
Maika Monroe
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
FKA twigs
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
Gabriela Mistral
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The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.
Irving Fisher
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
J. C. Ryle
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Saint Augustine
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...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
Pablo Picasso
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Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
Niccolò Paganini
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We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
Erik Paulsen
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Gautama Buddha
