Dalai Lama Quotes
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
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Enough is enough... It's time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
