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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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
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To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.
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I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.
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Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing.
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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
