Dalai Lama Quotes
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
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Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.
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It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
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We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.
