Dalai Lama Quotes
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
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The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
