Dalai Lama Quotes
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
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The world is always in movement.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
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A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.
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I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
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Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
