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 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 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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When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'
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I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.
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Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
