Dalai Lama Quotes
Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
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New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
