Longchenpa Quotes
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?
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I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
