Dalai Lama Quotes
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
