"One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase."

-- Gautama Buddha

#Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And as for fiscal conservatism and small government, I'm so much further to the right than Glenn Beck. Nobody is further left and further right than me. As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.”
“It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.”
“The world makes you something that youâ€™re not - but you know inside what you are.”

Source : "Why I must come out". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
“There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.”
“I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.”
“It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.”
“I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.”
“I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.”

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