Dalai Lama Quotes
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Everything is real on me.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.
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I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
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I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.
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When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
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I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
