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.
Quotes to Explore
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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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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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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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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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
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Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.
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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.
