Dalai Lama Quotes
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
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We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
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Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
