Dalai Lama Quotes

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

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• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Good
  • Real
  • Want

• Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Different
  • Middle

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Walking

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• As far as losing fights, that's part of the sport.

  

  Chuck Liddell

• I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Working
  • Talking
  • Typewriter

• The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Mind
  • May

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Suffering