Dalai Lama Quotes
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Those who go along get along.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.
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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
