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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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 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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
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The race needs workers, not leaders.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
