Dalai Lama Quotes
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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My soul is in good shape.
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So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
