Dalai Lama Quotes
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
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I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.
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I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.
