Dalai Lama Quotes
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I'm evangelical.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
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Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
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That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.
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Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
