Dalai Lama Quotes
Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
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Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
