Dalai Lama Quotes
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a character actor.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.
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You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.
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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
