Dalai Lama Quotes
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Even a single hair casts its shadow.
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I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
