Dalai Lama Quotes
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Quotes to Explore
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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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've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
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Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
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As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
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I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
