Dalai Lama Quotes
I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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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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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.
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I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
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I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
