Gautama Buddha Quotes
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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My roots are documentaries.
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You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.
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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
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In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
