Dalai Lama Quotes
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.Dalai Lama
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
Ban Ki-moon -
TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
Karan Singh Grover -
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
Imogen Heap -
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards -
It's always an honor to represent your country.
Sammy Sosa
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. Lawrence -
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl -
The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike -
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
Walter Cronkite -
In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance -
Human beings are religious animals.
Umberto Eco
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So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.
Dita Von Teese -
It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.
Eli Yishai -
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
Drew Houston -
I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.
Kyle MacLachlan -
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Kenichi Fukui -
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
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