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.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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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.
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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.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I don't read the critics.
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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.
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There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises.
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The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
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People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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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.
