Dalai Lama Quotes
Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
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Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
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I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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While we like to think that our theology shapes our understanding of the world, our understanding of the world often shapes our theology. The central metaphors of an era will often shift our notions of God.
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Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.
