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
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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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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.
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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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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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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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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
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I still live.
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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.
