Buddha Quotes
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Quotes to Explore
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
Wayne Dyer
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin
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America is not the center of the universe.
Felix Dennis
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Pat Nixon
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
Adam G. Sevani
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
Imogen Poots
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
Carl Hiaasen
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin
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Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Jenny Shipley
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Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
Marcel Proust
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I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
Seth Godin
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American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
Jason Winston George
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Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
Joanne Rowling
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha