Dalai Lama Quotes
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.Dalai Lama
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
M. J. Rose -
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown -
I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
Vidya Balan -
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
Fat Joe -
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby -
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
Yasser Arafat
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas -
I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
Edgar Ramirez -
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
Gao Xingjian -
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
Octavia Spencer -
For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Yves Behar -
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee
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I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.
Mark Pincus -
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
Mary-Louise Parker -
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
Wilhelm Liebknecht -
I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.
Martin Cruz Smith -
Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.
Israel Broussard -
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
Dalai Lama