Dalai Lama Quotes
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
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What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
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I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
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I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.
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The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
