Dalai Lama Quotes
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
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Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
