Gautama Buddha Quotes
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.
