Kelsang Gyatso Quotes
Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
-
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
-
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
-
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
-
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
-
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
-
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
-
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
-
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
-
I don't read the critics.
-
A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
-
We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.
-
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
-
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
-
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
-
On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
-
I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
-
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
-
If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh - I think that's what I'm attempting to do.
-
Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
