Buddha Quotes
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Quotes to Explore
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
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I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
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One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
