Dalai Lama Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.
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I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
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It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
