Dalai Lama Quotes
Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
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I'm very cagey by nature.
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No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
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The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.
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Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'
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Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.
