Dalai Lama Quotes
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
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Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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I like a challenge, and I would like to pitch against the Dominican Republic at the World Baseball Classic.
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It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
