Gautama Buddha Quotes
Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.
Quotes to Explore
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
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Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.
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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.
