Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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Never stop supporting music because it will never stop being there for you when you need it.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
