Dalai Lama Quotes
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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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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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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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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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
