Dalai Lama Quotes
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I'm very content.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
