Dalai Lama Quotes
We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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It is natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity - in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes - an interesting side branch.
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Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.
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In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled.
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Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
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We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.
