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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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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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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These universal means of expression were discovered in modern painting by a logical and gradual progress toward ever more abstract form and color. Once the solution was discovered, there followed the exact representation of relations alone, that is to say, of the essential and fundamental element in any plastic emotion of the beautiful.
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I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.
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I really have the American dream licked.
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I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
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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?
