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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Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Being patient does not mean being silent.
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It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
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When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
