Dalai Lama Quotes
Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.
