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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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
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I once had to say this on a show many years ago, and I truly believe it: Loneliness is a choice. I like to be alone; I’m more comfortable alone. But I do recognize that I take it too far sometimes and so I try to force myself to keep up with being sociable. I just am a bit of a lone ranger; I always have been. But I don’t believe that necessarily has to translate to being lonely. You can be lonely in a crowd of a thousand people. I can be in a hotel room on my own and not feel lonely. It all comes down to how comfortable you are with who you are in the silence.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
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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?
