"Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk."

-- Dalai Lama

#Love Quotes #Karma Quotes #Buddhist Quotes

“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”

Source : "Armistead Maupin: San Francisco's chronicler calls time on his saga" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
“Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.”

Source : Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage
“Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.”
“In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If youâ€™re a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If youâ€™re short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If youâ€™re a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if youâ€™re a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.”
“This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.”
“I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.”
“The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.”

Source : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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