Dalai Lama Quotes
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.
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I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
