Dalai Lama Quotes
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.
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My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'
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You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
