Dalai Lama Quotes
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
