Dalai Lama Quotes
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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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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I'm a total people pleaser.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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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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Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
