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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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
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Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.
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I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.
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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.
