Dalai Lama Quotes
We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.
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I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something
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We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
