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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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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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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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I'm not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it's after 5 A.M., I stay up.
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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.
