Dalai Lama Quotes
If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.
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It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.
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If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
