Dalai Lama Quotes
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
Quotes to Explore
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass...
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
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While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
