Gautama Buddha Quotes

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Gautama Buddha

• Life
• Evil
• Prove
• Purity

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• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
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• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
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• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
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• Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Want
  • Desire

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
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• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Choices
  • Cold
  • Decisions

• When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'

  

  Manika
  • Music
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• I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • I Love
  • Director
  • Fantastic

• Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Exist
  • Pop

• Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Bad
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• In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money-not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' the instructor replied, 'it's not relevant to men.'

  

  Warren Farrell
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• '...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • True

• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Beautiful

• If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
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• We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

  

  Joe Manchin

• Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Fashion
  • Stupid
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• The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure is that neither can European states control and monitor the development of fundamentalist networks in their own territory.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Reality
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• The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Moments

• Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.

  

  James Baldwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Prove