Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you."
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Dean Martin
Singer
"The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live."
Bette Davis
Actress
"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
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"This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear."
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"The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access"
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"A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
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"When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do."
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"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature."
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"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know."
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
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"My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard."
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"I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other."
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"Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life."
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"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages."
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"I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle."
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"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be."
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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me."
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"Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project."
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"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be."
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"If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?"
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"Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something."
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"He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do."
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