Dalai Lama Quotes
I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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But I think we need the international market.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
