"The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery."

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“My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.”
“When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.”
“The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.”
“Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.”

Source : Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.16, Basic Books
“I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.”

Source : "TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 26, 2010.
“Men date. Women have relationships.”
“It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.”
“No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.”

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