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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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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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 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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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.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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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.
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There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
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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.
