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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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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As with real families, my fictional family on 'Life Goes On' had its ups and downs, and as part of the fictional downers, the actors were often called to cry on cue. This absolutely terrified me, because I was a pretty happy kid who didn't have much to cry about.
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We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.
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So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
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Look at Mother Nature on the runIn the nineteen seventies.
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We believe that if you want a strong middle class, you have to vote for Democrats.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
