Dalai Lama Quotes
In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
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I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
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When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
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In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.
