Dalai Lama Quotes
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.Dalai Lama
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
Samantha Bond -
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Sam Shepard -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
Halima Aden -
Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
T. J. Perkins
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface -
The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
Lake Bell -
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
Camille Paglia -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson -
When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
Fran Kranz -
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
Naveen Jain
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
Aaron Neville -
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
Jack Dee -
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
Jack Anderson -
My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou -
I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
Najib Mikati
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I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.
Kathleen Anne Brien -
Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place
Keiichi Sigsawa -
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav -
I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
Kelly Marie Tran -
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
Aisha Tyler -
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.
Dalai Lama