Dalai Lama Quotes

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Dalai Lama

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Job
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Guy

• The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Way
  • End
  • Belt

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Police
  • Missing

• For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Awareness

• Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Believe
  • American
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Place
  • Race
  • Group

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.

  

  Corbin Bernsen

• When I see the discrepancy between kids in the Philippines and the U.S., I feel like I have to give them an opportunity.

  

  Allan Pineda Lindo The Black Eyed Peas
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • Philippines

• The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

  

  Fred Savage
  • People

• Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • Reality
  • Universe

• We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Individual
  • Advantages
  • Privileges

• Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Opportunity
  • Practice
  • Patience