Dalai Lama Quotes

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

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• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Believe
  • House
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• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
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• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
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• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Growth
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• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  

  Xavi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Football

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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  • Four

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
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• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Power
  • Society
  • Fall

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
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  • Die
  • Learn

• To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
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  • House

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Future
  • March

• There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

  

  Dalai Lama
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