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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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
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• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

  

  Christopher Nolan
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• Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!

  

  Kim Richards
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• No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

  

  Emma Caulfield
  • True
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  • Peace

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
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  • Grandma

• I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless things, but rather have a great importance and significance.

  

  Gene Roddenberry
  • Life
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  • God

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

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Peace
  • Positive
  • Attitude