Dalai Lama Quotes
Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.
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Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
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There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I'd be lying if I said that that wasn't true.
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The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.
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Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.
