B. Alan Wallace Quotes
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
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I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead -' and as I looked up into Graham Mill's gaze I saw that he knew who, before I could say.
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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
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Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
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Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.
