Dalai Lama Quotes
Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
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Until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.
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Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
