Dalai Lama Quotes
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.
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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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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be. And I do think, over the years, I've developed a need for control.
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I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
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The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America's first black president.
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Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.
