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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My success is not who I am.
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When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
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Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.
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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
