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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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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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I have a little daughter and my first boy is 19; he’s playing in a band of his own. But I missed a lot of his childhood in the '80s. It was album, tour, album, tour, then I’d be off again. "My lad is playing in a little group at the moment and they’re playing the stuff I used to play, the Cream stuff, the Hendrix stuff and old blues numbers!
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I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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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?
