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 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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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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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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I'm constantly out of my mind trying to stay in shape.
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It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?
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Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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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.
