Gautama Buddha Quotes
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.
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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
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I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
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Mankind are all formed by the same Almighty being, alike objects of his Care & equally designed for the Enjoyment of Happiness the Christian Religion teaches us to believe & the Political Creed of America fully coincides with the Position.
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Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
