Dalai Lama Quotes
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
