Gautama Buddha Quotes
Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.
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I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
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Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
