Sai Baba Quotes
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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I've been racketeered on.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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The importance of human judgment does not evaporate in the future, and as connected individuals, we will have to exercise sound judgment about what we choose to share or not share about ourselves.
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There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
