Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.

Lobsang Tenzin

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Action
  • Growth
  • Balance

• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

  Larry David
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  • Up
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• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Changed

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Earth
  • Living
  • Face

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Courtesy
  • Added

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Important
  • History
  • Future

• If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • History
  • Divine Providence

• The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Writing
  • History
  • Legend