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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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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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
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I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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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.
