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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
-
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
-
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
-
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.
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
-
Politics is not an exact science.
-
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
-
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.
-
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
-
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
-
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
-
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
-
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.
-
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
-
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
-
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.
-
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
-
Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.
-
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
-
We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
-
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
