Dalai Lama Quotes
It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
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I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.
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I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
