Dalai Lama Quotes
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
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I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
