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
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
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The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
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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
