Dalai Lama Quotes
On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
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We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
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Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
