Dalai Lama Quotes
If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.
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By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
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'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
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His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.
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If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.
