Dalai Lama Quotes
I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
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To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.
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I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
