Dalai Lama Quotes
Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I like a quiet life.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
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That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.
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But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up—more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses—and I think it's appropriate.
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I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
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Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.
