Dalai Lama Quotes
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
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It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.
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If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
