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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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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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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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
