Gautama Buddha Quotes
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
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When I perform my role well, I feel proud.
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.
