Dalai Lama Quotes
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
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As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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I had a happy childhood.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
