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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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
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Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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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.
