Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
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My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.
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My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.
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I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
