Dalai Lama Quotes

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Marriage

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Country
  • Other
  • Carries

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Team

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Change

• Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Today
  • Failure
  • Sad

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Growth

• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
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  • Religion