Dalai Lama Quotes
We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
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Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.
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We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
