Dalai Lama Quotes
In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
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You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
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In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
