Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
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This body made of flesh is subject to death. If it is not washed for a single day, it stinks. We cannot trust the human body.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.
