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.
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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.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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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.
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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.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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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.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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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.
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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.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
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I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
