Gelek Rimpoche Quotes
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.
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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
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Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
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One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.
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How about I burn us some dinner before my shift starts.
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I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
