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 silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples - that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.
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I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
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Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
