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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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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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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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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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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You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.
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In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'
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The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
