Dalai Lama Quotes
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
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Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
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Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
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A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
