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 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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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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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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Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.
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There's people that appreciate what I do; there's people that criticize it.
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
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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.
