Dalai Lama Quotes
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
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I love the story of Quasimodo, about someone who feels like they don't belong but is pure of heart and has good intentions. It's a great message for a younger audience.
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One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.
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The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.
