Dalai Lama Quotes
There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
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I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
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Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
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I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
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It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
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I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.
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No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
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You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
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I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
