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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I want to serve the people.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
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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.
