Dalai Lama Quotes
Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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I wish we had more diversity.
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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.
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We'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.
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Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
