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.
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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.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
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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.
