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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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
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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
