Dalai Lama Quotes
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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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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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
