Gautama Buddha Quotes
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.
Quotes to Explore
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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I still don't get golf.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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I was seized with a guilt that I knew would never leave me, and I knew I didn't deserve to be free of it. I hadn't quite reached the end of my rope, but I was close enough.
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How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.
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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.
