Dalai Lama Quotes
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
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I'm not a Republican.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
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In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
