Dalai Lama Quotes
When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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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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I love people, and the hustle.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are here, but also because Nottingham is such a vibrant city.
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Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems
