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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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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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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No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
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How can we address concerns about 'use of force', how can we address concerns about officer-involved shootings if we do not have a reliable grasp on the demographics and circumstances of those incidents? We simply must improve the way we collect and analyze data to see the true nature of what’s happening in all of our communities.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
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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
