Dalai Lama Quotes
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.

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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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Honestly, if a girl's wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that's not cute at all. You can't get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff, and it's all good.
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.
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If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.