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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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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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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I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.
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Putin said I was a genius. I do say this: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we actually could get along with Russia and China and some other countries that we don’t get along with, and then we go out and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn’t it be nice if we cleaned that mess up? Wouldn’t it be smart?
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That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.
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There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
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I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
