Gautama Buddha Quotes
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
