Dalai Lama Quotes
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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No one person is an island.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn what you must learn in order to become the person you need to be to create everything you want for your life. Always.
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I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.