Dalai Lama Quotes
We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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To be is to do.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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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'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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We give our deadTo the orchardsAnd the groves.We give our deadTo life.
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Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
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Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
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They were very persistent. They didn't stop writing or calling.
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We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
