Gautama Buddha Quotes
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
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It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.
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There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
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A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
