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.
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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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The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?
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I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
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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.
