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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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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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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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
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You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you – and then they decide to marry you, I guess.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
