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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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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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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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
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Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.
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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
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Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
