Gautama Buddha Quotes
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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I wear high heels and dresses. I am a total girly girl.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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I'm a woman, of course I still have curves on me, and that's ok. I had a baby and I've worked hard. And I don't think women should have to feel that kind of pressure. I've done it really healthfully, and I took my time.
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
