Dalai Lama Quotes
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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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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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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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.
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The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
