Dalai Lama Quotes
A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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I'm a real romantic.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.
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Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
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I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
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During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
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There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.
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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
