Dalai Lama Quotes
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.
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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
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I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
