Dalai Lama Quotes
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.
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I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
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Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.
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The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.
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I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.
