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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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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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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.
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If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.
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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.
