Dalai Lama Quotes
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
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I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
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External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.
