Dalai Lama Quotes
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
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There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Worst part is the post project low that seems to happen after being on a project that you love. I don’t hate things, but I really really passionately dislike going from being around a 'film family' every day and loving every minute of it, then after the film is over you rarely see each other again and if you do its very few and far in between.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
