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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?

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Things change when you're fighting the best guys in the world.

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I was 133-pounder all through college, and that's probably my natural fighting weight, but if it isn't broken, why fix it? I've been a champion at 145.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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Dana White's awesome. He's an emotional guy, but I feel like he's a good guy. He's an emotional guy. He's like Donald Trump. He says whatever the hell he wants.

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I'm a big fan of 'The Last Dragon' - Bruce Leroy and Sho'nuff - that's one of my favorite movies growing up.

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I've been aware of that; that's why I've stayed and haven't wanted to retire and come back - because you skip a beat.

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This is the one sport you don't want to be one foot in one foot out.

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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Uma Thurman

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Uma Thurman

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Uma Thurman

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Uma Thurman

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Uma Thurman

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Uma Thurman

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Uma Thurman

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Uma Thurman

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

Uma Thurman

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

Uma Thurman

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Uma Thurman

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Uma Thurman

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Uma Thurman

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

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The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?

Urijah Faber

Things change when you're fighting the best guys in the world.

Urijah Faber

I was 133-pounder all through college, and that's probably my natural fighting weight, but if it isn't broken, why fix it? I've been a champion at 145.

Urijah Faber

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler

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