Dalai Lama Quotes
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
Quotes to Explore
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
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My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
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It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there
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True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.
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Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
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If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
