Dalai Lama Quotes

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

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• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
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  • Excellence
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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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  • Young

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Goal
  • Enemy
  • U.S.

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Know
  • Me
  • Act

• I could never resist the call of the trail.

  

  Buffalo Bill

• Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Money

• People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Confident

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Peace
  • Positive
  • Attitude