Dalai Lama Quotes
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Quotes to Explore
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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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 tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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I'm interested in just about anything that's right for my voice, and that's a good fit for my personality in the part as well. 'Evita' has always been a dream part for me, but it's really, really high to sing. I'd love to do Elphaba - heck, I'd even do Glinda. For me, I'd do anything to get into 'Wicked!'
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Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
