Buddha Quotes
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Quotes to Explore
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
