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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You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.
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My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
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If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
