Dalai Lama Quotes
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.Dalai Lama
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
Gabe Newell -
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver -
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
Wang Jianlin -
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
Dan Gilbert -
If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski -
I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
Karl Pilkington -
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson -
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
Adam Oates -
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien -
I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
Ina Garten
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
John Boyd Orr -
I think it's important to take chances.
David Sedaris -
Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.
Alexandra Fuller -
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Dalai Lama