Kelsang Gyatso Quotes
Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
Quotes to Explore
-
I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
-
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
-
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
-
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
-
I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
-
We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
-
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
-
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
-
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
-
Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
-
You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
-
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
-
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
-
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
-
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
-
Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
-
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
-
Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
-
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
-
I will always dance in the street.
-
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.
-
Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.
-
I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
-
Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
