Gautama Buddha Quotes

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

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• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Bored

• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

  

  Ice T
  • Things
  • Records
  • Lived

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Job
  • Creative
  • Kitchen

• There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Me
  • College
  • Learn

• I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Money
  • Disrespect
  • Throw

• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Me
  • Best
  • Prefer

• I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Really
  • Shy
  • Karaoke

• I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

  

  Nathan Lane

• Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)

  

  Aristophanes
  • City
  • Clouds

• Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Kiss

• Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Work
  • Honesty
  • Humility

• My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Gold
  • Garden
  • Surfing

• Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Country
  • Job
  • Today

• My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Age

• What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Time

• There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Time
  • Awaken